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Eemarks. — Others can do it as well as they ; and if they do not wish to put 

 out as many, can put out enough to break the winds ftom their houses, bams, 

 sneds, etc., and soon have enough for their home use, for fence posts, fuel, etc 

 And as anyone who desires to put out trees would be likely to inquire, " what 

 shall I put out ?" I will name a few kinds that have done well in the west, and 

 show also what may be expected to be their growth in 10 to 20 years. 



Hardy Trees, Rapidity of Gro-wtli, etc.— The following varieties, 

 all things considered, are the best for general cultivation in the North-west: 



Cottonwood, soft maple, silver poplar, black cherry, ash-leaved maple, 

 catalpa, black walnut, and white walnut. H. C. Raymond, of Council Blufis, 

 Iowa, states that the following named varieties, planted when one foot in 

 height, attained the following diameters and heights when ten years of age : 



Cottonwood, Diameter, 9 inches. Height, 35 feet, 



SoftMaple " 8 " " 30 " 



Silver Poplar " 9 " " 30 " 



Black Cherry " 6 " " 28 " 



Ash-leaved Maple " 5}4" " 27 " 



Catalpa " 6 " " 25 " 



Black Wahiut " 5 " " 20 " 



Butternut *' 5 " , " 20 " 



Hon. Suel Foster, of Muscatine, Iowa, reports the following as the growth 

 of the varieties named twenty years, after transplanting : 



Soft Maple Diameter, 16 inches. Height, 35 feet. 



HardMaple •' 14>^ " " 20 " 



Black Cherry " 11 " " 40 " 



The chestnut, twenty-four years from seed grew to be 10 to \Q% inches in 

 diameter and 30 to 89 feet in height. The European larch, ten years, trans- 

 planted, attained a diameter of 4 to 7)^ inches, and were 20 to 30 feet in 

 height. 



The Osage orange south of the north line of Missouri, the Prairie Farmer 

 thinks is the quickest to give fence posts, and that they are more durable than 

 any other, easily cut and split when green, but very hard when dry. Grape- 

 vine posts of this timber, perfectly sound after 14 years' use, and some poles of 

 it of 4 to 5 inches in diameter lay the same length of time under the ledge and 

 yet perfectly sound. They think it admirably adapted for farm timber and 

 farm fuel all over the west and southwest, not too far north, of any other. 

 For felloes of wheels it outsets 4 to 1 the best white oak, and valuable for all 

 purposes that hard wood can be put to. Probably no timber is equal to the 

 black walnut when large enough for sawing; and the hard maple for making 

 one's own sugar, as they may be tapped by boring when 6 to 10 inches in 

 diameter. The chestnut makes splendid rails, and furnishes a salable not, if 

 the children can spare them. Now let each one judge for himself according 

 to his situation and his wants. 



