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box-elder, 36 to 40 inches ; catalpa, J 2 to 24 inches ; chestnut, 8 to 

 14 inches ; cotton-wood, 36 to 60 inches ; elm, 20 to 30 inches ; honey- 

 locust, 36 to 42 inches ; larch, 6 to 12 inches ; linden, 9 to 18 inches ; 

 silver-maple, 24 to 30 inches ; sycamore-maple, 12 to 24 inches ; 

 osage-orange, 12 to 36 inches ; peach, 30 to 36 inches ; white poplar, 

 24 to 36 inches ; Lombardy poplar, 24 to 36 inches ; tulip-tree, 8 to 

 10 inches ; willows, 36 to 48 inches ; walnut, 6 to 8 inches. 



Mr. Gale says : " The evergreens have nearly all lived, and have 

 made a growth of from 4 to 8 inches. All have done well. There 

 is certainly nothing in* the appearance of these trees to discourage the 

 planting of evergreens in Kansas." It is proper to state that the cat- 

 alpa-seed was sown broadcast on ground which had been broken the 

 November previous, and was not replowed. Seedling walnuts were 

 grown by putting the seed under fresh turned sod. None of the trees 

 had the care or cultivation usual in nurseries. 



At Ellis the same transplanted trees were tried as at Wilson, except 

 red cedar and cotton-wood. The result was encouraging, although 

 the chestnut, larch and Norway spruce may be said to have failed on 

 this first trial, and some others were less vigorous than at Wilson. 

 The hailstorm of 1st June greatly damaged the trees, cutting off the 

 leaves and shoots and splitting the bark ; yet a large portion of the 

 deciduous class made a fair growth, and about 50 per cent, of the 

 pines survived. Of ailantus, ash, catalpa, honey-locust and white 

 poplar planted at ElHs, every tree survived, and nearly all of the box- 

 elder, elm, silver-maple, osage-orange, Lombardy poplar and black 

 walnut. 



At Pond Creek the growth of some kinds of trees was highly 

 encouraging. Ailantus, ash, box-elder, catalpa, honey-locust and 

 osage-orange have done best, and promise well for the future. Elm 

 and black walnut made moderate growth, and seem to have estab- 

 lished themselves. The willows, the poplars, and the silver-maple 

 did not come up to expectation. European larch and most of the 

 evergreens failed ; but a few of the pines lived through the summer, 

 and in another season will probably do well. The trees at Pond 

 Creek are in one of the most forbidding spots of all the plains. At 



