1901. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOClATb 





Agriculture for 1S99, and issued late in 

 1900. 



Bull Pine. 



Pinus scopulorum (Engelm.) Lem- 

 mon. Our tree is what Engelmann sep- 

 arated as the variety scopulorum of P. 

 ponderosa in the Botany of California, 

 Vol. II. , p. 126 (18S0). It has been 

 doubted whether this is entitled to more 

 than varietal rank, since our trees are but 

 little different from those on the Pacific 

 coast, which are regarded as typical. If 

 this is to be deemed a variety our tree will 

 then be named P. ponderosa scopulorum 

 Engelmann, otherwise it will be given as 

 above. 



This tree forms dense forests in the 

 northwestern and northern portions of the 

 vState, extending from the Wyoming line 

 along Pine Ridge and the Niobrara River 

 to the eastern boundary of Rock and Keya 

 Paha counties. It occurs also on the 



MAP NO. I. DOTTED SECTIONS SHOW DISTRIBUTION OF BULL 

 PINE IN NEBRASKA. 



North Platte River as far east as Deuel 

 county, and also south of that river on the 

 mountainous uplift known as the Wild 

 Cat Mountains. It is so abundant in the 

 latter region that sawmills have been 

 erected, and much lumber manufactured 

 from it. It is said to occur, also, in iso- 

 lated patches on the high rough land be- 

 tween the North Platte River and Pine 

 Ridge. I have myself not seen the pine 

 in this latter locality, but it is so reported 



occurred in Franklin county in I 



bean valley where it 

 tinct. (See map No. 1.) Wh< re | 

 this is proving to be a valuable | 

 growing in the Sand Hill 



Eas 1 i i:\ Red Cj d vr. 

 Juniperus virginiana L. Sp. PI. 

 0753)- Eastern Nebraska aloi 

 streams and occasionally seat: 

 the hills in central Nebraska, and p 

 the western border. This \<^\ Cedar 

 does not occur in dense growths an\ p 

 in the State. It has been very fr< 

 planted, and without question man) 

 the trees were brought from too far east 

 and south to thrive on the plains. They 

 should be grown from seeds from Nebraj 

 trees. 



Western Red Cedar. 



Juniperus scopulorum Sargent Garden 



and Forest, 10 (1897). This species has 

 been so much contused with 

 the foregoing that it is quite 

 difficult to assign its ranee 

 with accuracy. All the Red 

 Cedars in the State were 

 until recently supposed to 

 be of one species, namely, 

 the first mentioned, but Pro- 

 fessor Sargent has deter- 

 mined that in western Ne- 

 braska many, if not all, of the 

 trees belong to the western 

 species. In assigning 

 range, 1 should give it as the 

 western countiesoi Nebraska 

 extending eastward along the Platte and 

 the Niobrara rivers for a hundred miles 01 

 more. These two trees may be distin- 

 guished by the fact that in the western 

 species the fruits are larger and do not 

 ripen until the second year, while in the 

 eastern species they ripen during the first 

 autumn. In the western species the tl 

 are more inclined to grow into compact, 

 rounded tops, and the foliage is usu 

 more glaucous. Nebraska horticultui 



long 



by government surveyors. It occurs in 



limited areas in the Loup Valley in the the two species, and planted 1 



,nd Hills, and also under the name of "Pli '"' 



ago noticed the difference between 



eastern edge of the Sat 

 in Greeley and Custer counties. It for- 

 merly occurred along the Platte River 

 eighteen or twenty miles east of the junc- 

 tion of the North and South Platte forks, 

 as is shown by fragments of roots dwj; 

 from the ground. Similarly, it formerly 



' Silver Cedar." 



Common Coi 1 ONW OOD. 



Populus deltoidea Mai shall. Axbustum 

 Americanum, roj ] }> 



gro 



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in"- tree which is common thro 



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