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half inches in diameter, one season's top growth, five feet seven 

 inches; a healthy, long-lived tree for grove or road-side, and 

 hard to excel for its valuable timber and nuts, but can not be 

 recommended for door-yards, especially near the house, on 

 account of its meagre shade, and its liability to the attacks of 

 the caterpillars. White ash, fifteen years old, twenty-seven 

 feet six inches in hight, ten inches in diameter, one season's 

 top growth, two feet seven inches ; a healthy, clean, beautiful 

 tree, excellent for door-yards or lawns, a rapid grower, easy 

 to transplant, and second only to the black-walnut in the value 

 of its timber. Red oak, twelve years old, twenty-five feet 

 seven inches in hight, six and one-half inches in diameter, one 

 season's top growth, two feet two inches. Red cedar, eighteen 

 years old, twenty feet five inches in hight, nine inches in diam- 

 eter. Scotch pine, sixteen years old, twentj'-eight feet in hight, 

 twelve and one-half inches in diameter, one season's top 

 growth, twenty-two inches. White pine, fourteen years old, 

 thirty feet six inches in hight, eleven and one-half inches in 

 diameter, one season's top growth, four feet two inches ; the 

 onost valuable tree on our continent. 



To make the list more complete of the more common kinds 

 of timber trees, I add the measurements of a few varieties I 

 .had no occasion to cut. 



Austrian pine, sixteen years old, twenty-five feet high, ten 

 inches in diameter. Norway spruce, twenty years old, twenty- 

 eight feet high, fourteen and one-half inches in diameter. Bal- 

 sam fir, twenty years old, thirtj^-two feet six inches high, four- 

 teen inches in diameter. American larch, eighteen years old, 

 thirty-four feet high, ten inches in diameter. Hard maple, 

 thirteen years planted from forest, thirty-four feet high, ten 

 inches in diameter. Red elm, thirteen years planted, thirty- 

 eight feet high, thirteen inches in diameter. 



The diameter given, in all cases, is for the wood only, 

 exclusive of bark. 



PLANTING AND CULTIVATION. 



Many farmers are deterred from planting forest trees, by 

 a lack of practical knowledge on the subject. A few plain, 



