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Plat 34 is planted 4 feet by 6 feet with European larch. This 

 method of planting- is adapted to the Northern States from New York 

 to the Dakotas. The larch is peculiarly well suited for the produc- 

 tion of fence posts, telegraph poles, railroad ties, and other timbers 

 useful on the farm. 



Plat 35 is planted 4 feet by 6 feet with chestnut and red oak in 

 equal proportions. This combination is adapted to the Ohio Valley. 

 Both species used in this mixture grow very rapidly, and produce 

 excellent timber. The wide spacing will permit good cultivation. 



Plat 36 is planted 4 feet by 6 feet with yellow poplar, sugar maple, 

 chestnut, and hemlock in equal proportions. This mixture is adapted 

 to the southern New England States and the middle Appalachian 

 Mountains. The maple and hemlock will form an understory, while 

 the chestnut and poplar will produce an overstory and ultimately mature 

 into large trees well adapted for lumber. 



Plat 37 is planted 4 feet by 6 feet with equal proportions of white 

 ash and red oak. This mixture, for the production of saw timber, is 

 suited to the middle and southern Appalachians and to the Ohio Valley. 



Plat 38 is planted 4 feet by 4 feet with red oak, and illustrates a 

 method of planting adapted to the middle Appalachian Mountains and 

 the Ohio Valley. The close planting will obviate the necessity of long- 

 continued cultivation. 



Plat 39 is planted 6 feet by 6 feet with equal proportions of sugar 

 maple and chestnut. This mixture is ada'pted to the Atlantic coast 

 from Massachusetts to Virginia, and to the Appalachian region south 

 of the Adirondacks. The chestnut will form the overstory, while the 

 sugar maple as an understory will shade and enrich the soil. 



Plat 40 is planted 6 feet by 8 feet with chestnut, and illustrates a 

 method suited to southern New England, the Appalachian Mountains, 

 and the Ohio Valley. . The chestnut is the most rapid-growing broad- 

 leaf tree adapted to the region, and on good soil, where long-continued 

 cultivation is possible, will reach a large size in a short time. 



Plat 41 is planted 6 feet by 8 feet with equal proportions of yellow 

 poplar and sweet gum. This mixture is peculiarly well adapted to the 

 moist flats in Virginia, North Carolina, western Tennessee, and western 

 Kentucky. The poplar is intended to form the overstory, while the 

 gum will serve as an understor} 7 , affording shade to the forest floor. 



Plat 42 was planted 6 feet by 8 feet with loblolly and long-leaf pine 

 in equal proportions. This mixture is well adapted to abandoned 

 farm lands in the Southern States where the altitude is not greater 

 than 1,500 feet above sea level. The wide spacing is advised chiefly 

 because nursery stock of these species is expensive and difficult to 

 obtain. If the seedlings were available, closer spacing would be 

 advisable in order that the young trees might, by crowding, form clean, 

 straight boles. Owing to a lack of the nursery stock, white pine and 



