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be planted with any size of trees 

 found convenient. Grass seed or 

 sod may be put where desired but 

 not about the trees. Maple, ash, 

 elm, basswood, box elder, walnut, 

 larch, spruce and pine, of either 

 native or imported varieties will 

 develop rapidly. 



For rapidity of growth only, it is 

 likely the box elder will stand first, 

 then the white elm and ash. In 

 this climate the new wood on either 



may reach six or eight feet a year. 

 A little further south the catalpa 

 ailanthus and chestnut will equal or 

 pass these. It will be easy in any local- 

 ity to find trees which will soon grow 

 to a conspicuous size. The time spent 

 in fitting the ground before planting 

 is more than gained both in smaller 

 number of failures and in the more 

 immediate growth of all. Forest 

 trees resemble fruit trees and repay 

 all the care, though in a different way. 



^rboricUltaral. 



The Judas Tree. 



The' Judas Tree or Red-bud af the 

 middle and Southern States {Cercis Can- 

 adensis) is in bloom. It is one of the 

 most beautiful flowering trees of North 

 American forests ; and there are no more 

 beautiful objects than the great masses 

 of this tree in some parts of the South 

 or South-west, notably along the east- 

 ern borders of the Indian Territory and 

 in eastern Texas, when they are cover- 

 ed with their purple flowers in very 

 early spring. There the Red-bud be- 

 comes a tall tree, with a stout trunk ; 

 further north, although nearly always 

 arborescent, it never attains the size 

 developed in the more favorable cli- 

 mate and more generous soil of the 

 South. It is remarkable that so fine a 

 plant should be neglected by our horti- 

 culturists, who hunt the remotest cor- 

 ners of the earth for novelties with 

 which to embellish their gardens, and 

 pass native species which cannot be 

 matched anywhere. Cercis Canaden- 

 sis is rarely planted in gardens these 

 days, and yet a plant in flower standing 

 out alone before a dark background of 

 Hemlocks or of Pines, or where it can 

 contrast its purple flowers with the 



white floral leaves (the two jilants flower 

 here together) of the Flowering Dog- 

 wood ( Cornus Florida) is an object which 

 fully satisfies the imagination, and one 

 which is not easily forgotten. The 

 Red-bud, although not a native of 

 eastern New England is perfectly hardy 

 here ; it grows rapidly, and is an object 

 of beauty from the time abundant 

 flowers cover the naked branches until 

 the late autumn, when the red-brown 

 pods are x'\^Q..--Garden and Forest. 



Forest Trees for Ornamental Use. 



THEautumn is an excellent timeof the 

 year to dig from the woods,and transplant 

 on the grounds, specimens of our hardy 

 forest trees ; but do not make the mis- 

 take of too close planting, especially 

 about the house. Maples are always 

 fine, and to this we may add the Tulip 

 Tree, Basswood, Elm and White Birch, 

 Walnuts, Black and White, and But- 

 ternuts may be easily grown from seed, 

 also Chestnuts. A grove maybe quick- 

 ly grown from Locust seed, and these 

 trees, as well as the Basswood and Tu- 

 lip Tree, are especially valuable as honey 

 producers — Orange County Farmer. 



