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Planting in Kansas. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



TREE-PLANTING IN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA. 



1399. The Kansas State Horticultural Society began, in 1880, the 

 publication of an annual Report upon Forestry, as an extract from 

 its general report for the preceding year. In the second of these 

 there is given a summary of replies to circulars from its correspond- 

 ents, in Avhich they mention their preference for kinds of trees that 

 have been cultivated with success. They may be condensed as fol- 

 lows, but to save repetition they will be referred to by numbers, 

 Corresponding with those in the following list : 



1400. Names of Trees that are successfully cultivated in Kansas. 



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COMMON NAMES. 



Ailanthus. 

 Ash- 

 Blue. 

 Green. 

 White. 

 Box Elder, or Ash-leaved 



Maple. 

 Catalpa. 

 Cherry, wild. 

 Chestnut. 

 Coffee-bean. 

 Cottonwood. 

 Elm- 

 Red (Slippery Elm). 

 White. 

 Hackberry. 

 Hickory. 

 Honey Locust. 

 Locust 



Black. 

 Yellow. 

 Maple 



Soft (Silver-leaf Maple). 

 Sugar. 



BOTANICAL NAMKS. 



Ailanthus glandulosa. 

 Fraxinus 



quadrangulata. 



viridis. 



Americana. 



Regundo aceroides. 

 Catalpa speciosa. 

 Primus serotina. 

 Castanea vesca, var. Americana. 

 Gymnocladus Canadensis. 

 Populus monilifera. 

 Ulmus 

 fulva. 

 Americana. 

 Ccllis occidentalis. 



Carya . 



Gleditschia tricanthoe. 

 Robinia 



pseudo-acacia. 

 var. (?) 

 Acer 



dasycarpum. 

 saccharinum. 



