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for the propagation of young- trees from these particularly good 

 specimens. To produce plants from a desirable mulberry is 

 not at all difficult. It may be done as follows: 



Take cuttingssevenor eight incheslongof the current year's 

 growth late in the fall, tie them in bundles, and store in damp 

 sawdust, or damp sand, in the cellar, or bury them out of doors 

 under the frost line; as soon as the weather is settled and before 

 the leaves expand the following- spring-, set the cuttings half 

 their length in a sunny, well tilled part of the garden. A 

 large per cent of them will grow. The cuttings will strike 

 root somewhat better in a hot bed or greenhouse than they will 

 out of doors. Nurserymen can easily graft or bud desirable 

 scions on seedling roots, thus making a good and cheap tree. 

 Some enterprising nurseryman should propagate and sell a 

 good strain of the White Mulberry to those desiring trees for 

 silk- worm rearing. 



THE OAKS. 



Originally there were three species, of several specimens 

 each, of oaks in the plantation ; the Burr Oak )Querms macro- 

 carpa Michx.), the Swamp Oak (Quercus bicolor Willd.), and 

 the English Oak (Qiiercus rolmr}, but of all these not one 

 remains. It is impossible for the writer to say, having taken 

 charge of the experiment since their disappearance, what 

 caused the death of the trees. The records show that some 

 specimens of each species lived and made a fair growth for the 

 first few years and then perished. None, according to the 

 records, seemed to have been injured by cold or disease, and 

 since a number of young oaks now growing near by in the new 

 arboretum seem to thrive in similar soil, it is probable that 

 their deaths may be attributed to drouth and heat, both of 

 which are disastrous to these trees; a likely supposition from the 

 fact that the plantation has at different times suffered much 

 from lack of water. In the new forestry experiment there are 

 a dozen specimens each ot twenty species of oaks all of 

 which seem to be doing well. By cutting the tap roots a year 

 beforehand these have been transplanted without the loss of a 

 plant, and, with this precaution, and a little extra care, oaks may 

 be readily removed; the difficulty of transplanting eliminated, 

 they can be grown as readily as can other hardwoods. 



There seems to me to be no reason why the oaks, trees 



