TREE PLANTING IN UTAH. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



This bulletin is an account of the behavior of forty species 

 of timber and shade trees now growing- on the grounds of the 

 Utah Experiment Station. The experiment, of which this is a 

 report, was started in the spring of 1890, by Prof. E. S. Rich- 

 man, then Station Horticulturist, with the object of testing the 

 adaptability of various species of trees for this region, and of 

 demonstrating the best method of planting and caring for 

 them. In the account here given, the aim of the experiment, 

 as stated above, has been first in mind at all times, but the 

 writer has branched out, more or less, to give some facts re- 

 garding the qualities and characteristics of various species, 

 hoping thus to aid the grower in choosing an assortment to 

 plant, and to help him to identify species of which he is not 

 sure. Some information regarding the propagation of such 

 trees as can be easily propagated on any farm, is given. 



Numbers 18, 25 and 37, preceding this bulletin, contain 

 brief accounts of the experiment from which the information 

 herein set forth is drawn, so that this is the fourth report of an 

 experiment now in its ninth year. The reader should look up 

 the bulletins mentioned above. 



It is well to understand at the outset, that the pages to 

 follow, deal with tree-planting, and not at all with forestry, be- 

 tween which there is a wide difference. Since so much is being 

 written and said to the people of the treeless region about 



