The Cauadiaii Horticulturist. 



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too thin to be imicli use for a shelter 

 belt, but its timber has few equals. 



The ash is well-known and is a 

 little more trouble to get from seed, 

 though transplanting just as readily. 

 It is not generall}- called a rapid 

 grower, but a two year seedling in 

 fair soil will soon grow into a very- 

 handsome tree, very straight and clean 

 in liiuik and limb, and useful for 

 street decoration or forest plantation 

 and hardy enough for an}- climate. 

 It is largely sold by the American 

 nurserymen as a tree for timber 

 claims and sent out at one or two 

 years old, when it varies from one to 

 three feet in height. It is said that 

 some of them use the green ash, a 

 more rapid grower, from a little 

 further south, and sell them for white 

 asli. 1 think some of them tried this 

 on me, for one lot of seedlings sup- 

 posed to be white ash, which I im- 

 ported from the States, has turned 

 out not to be quite hardy and freezes 

 back nearly to the snow, whicli I 

 know white ash should not do. The 

 white ash of my own raising from the 

 seed are straight, plump, and sound 

 to the terminal buds with very solid 

 root, and so are some imported seed- 

 lings ; so I think if any of us find our 

 ash seedlings suffer from frost, we 

 may conclude we have not used the 

 true white ash. 



This ash is a tree of which no one 

 can speak disparagingly — it cannot 

 be abused for any defect in growth or 

 habit and cannot be surpassed in 

 vigor, beauty, or usefulness. What 

 more do we want, except more of 

 them ? 



SECOND GROWTH WALNUT. 



The Hamilton Spectator of a late 



date quotes the following : — " United 

 States Consul Albert Roberts, in a 

 report from Hamilton, Ont., on wood 

 and woodenware, says: 'Much 

 of the imported walnut has been 

 planted in the United States by 

 men not yet old.' If Mr. Roberts 

 will inform us in wliat portion of the 

 United States the walnut he mentions 

 as having been planted is cut, he will 

 let in a side light on the lumber busi- 

 ness that will be an astonisher. 

 Somebody has been stuffing Mr. 

 Roberts." (NortJiiccst Lttuihennan.) 

 and remarks "the walnut makes 

 more rapid growth than hickory and 

 large quantities or second-growth 

 hickory are imported into Canada. 

 W'e believe Col. Roberts to have 

 been quite correct in his statement." 



It is evident that Col. Roberts is 

 mistaken, and the learned Editor of 

 the Spectator a little out of his lati- 

 tude too. 



The a priori argument from hic- 

 kory is just as absurd as it would 

 be to predict an annual cutting 

 of walnut from the example of the 

 osier willow. 



Second growth hickory used for 

 spokes, handles, etc., in thicknesses 

 of less than an inch can be got from 

 very young seedlings. At the last 

 meeting of the Fruit-growers Associa- 

 tion it was suggested that walnut 

 forty years old was only fit for repair- 

 ing barns; for manufacturing, seventy 

 to eighty years would be the earliest 

 age, and, although I believe walnut 

 is a most valuable tree to plant, and 

 agree with the Spectator so far, I at 

 the same time consider the Lumber- 

 man perfectly right that second 

 growth walnut is not an article of 

 commerce. There are no old planta- 



