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Virgin's Bower (Clematis Virginiana). Native, healthy and 

 strong, bearing- a profusion of small white, fragrant flowers in 

 August. Makes a beautiful contrast with the ivy just mentioned. 

 Grown froin seeds or layers. The C. viticella is equally satisfac- 

 tory, having large blue or purple flowers, producing them all 

 summer. 



Moonseed ( Menisperum Canadense). Slender and pretty, large 

 leaves; succeeds well in partial shade; grown from seed. 



Wild Grape (Vitis riparia). Coarse but beautiful, covering dead 

 trees or any unsightly object. Hard}^ anywhere; fragrant flowers. 

 Excellent stock for grafting with the domesticated grapes. Grown 

 froin cuttings or layers. 



A VOICE OF WARNING FROM THE LUMBER SIDE. 



Address delivered by Col. Piatt B. Walker, a lumberman of Minneapolis, at the 

 forestry session of the Horticultural Society, Jan. 11, 1894. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Society: I ac- 

 cepted some weeks since an invitation from the president of the 

 association to prepare a paper on the subject of "Forestry 

 from the Lumberman's Standpoint." and I confess that had I 

 anticipated my present feeble condition or my surroundings 

 during the last two days I would have declined the invitation. 

 I have prepared a brief paper which I will present to you and 

 hope it may meet with your appreciation. 



It is not the purpose of this article to enlighten this society vipon 

 the technic of forestry, as I profess a profound ignorance of the sub- 

 ject of tree planting, or concerning the adaptability and care of cer- 

 tain species in certain soils. These matters largely involve special 

 education and experience, which I never have had. 



First, as to the importance of the subject of forestry. The prac- 

 tical lumberman, who views this subject from a business stand- 

 point, is, perhaps, the best posted individual concerning the grow- 

 ing scarcity of all the more useful woods of commerce. The import- 

 ance of wood as a building material grows less and less, year by 

 year, until we may look forward to the day in the near future when 

 it will be abandoned altogether in favor of iron, brick, stone, terra 

 cotta and other inaterials, which, under the improved conditions of 

 manufacture, are growing cheaper year by year, until they have 

 reached the point where they are almost as cheap as wood in the 

 beginning, and almost imperishable in their nature. Poverty has 

 compelled the beginner in the Western world to start life in the 

 cheap pine houses and shops, and the flood of immigration to the 

 treeless plains has made an extraordinary demand which has prac- 

 tically destroyed the available timber on nine-tenths the area of the 

 Northwestern pine-producing states.' The first and second genera- 

 tions of houses and shops from Maine to Oregon have been built of 

 pine. It is not strange, therefore, that we can see the beginning of 

 the end of this most valuable tree. 



