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THE FORESTER. 



December, 



out the State is in my opinion one of the 

 most valuable of our native trees. The 

 common practice of writers on arboricul- 

 ture in describing the Cottonwood as 

 worthless is not to be sanctioned, as the 

 tree grows easily on all situations, and 

 produces in a short time good fuel and 

 valuable lumber. That the fuel is not as 

 good as beech and hickory may be ad- 

 mitted, and yet as we cannot grow these 

 we may as well accept Cottonwood fuel 

 at its fair valuation, remembering that it 

 was produced in a wonderfully short 

 time. It may be questioned whether the 

 annual heat producing product is less in 

 the Cottonwood than in the 

 Beech and Hickory, when 

 the difference in the rate 

 of growth is taken into con- 

 sideration. 



Basswood or Linden. 



Tilia america,7ia L. Sp. 



P1 - 5H C I 753)- South- 

 eastern to northern counties 

 from Jefferson to Gage, 

 Richardson, Cass, Saun- 

 ders, Nance, Douglas, 

 Knox, Rock, Brown, and 

 Cherry. (See Map No. 2.) Planted 

 successfully somewhat westward of its na- 

 tural range. 



falo, and Brown counties, and reported 

 from the valley of Medicine Creek in Fron- 

 tier county. Is successfully grown for 

 some distance beyond its natural range. 



Hackberry. 



Celtis occidentalis L. Sp. PI. 1044 

 (1753). More or less common through- 

 out the State, but less abundant in the west. 

 One of the best trees for ornamental plant- 

 ing. Its tough branches are rarely in- 

 jured by snow, sleet, or storms of any 

 kind. Its usual manner of growth is 

 with a stout stem bearing a compact, 

 rounded symmetrical top. 



White Elm. 



Ulmus americana L. Sp. PI. 226 (i753)- 

 Throughout the State ; in some places, 

 rare and much scattered, but in other 

 places, especially in the eastern portions 

 sometimes very abundant. 



This is the finest and most successful 

 of our native trees for shade and ornament. 

 It grows rapidly after careful setting in 

 any situation, in fully one-half of the 

 vState, and in the central and western por- 

 tions it grows well under irrigation, or in 

 the moist canons. In some of these can- 

 ons I have seen as fine specimens of this 

 noble tree as grown anywhere in the 

 country. 



Red Elm. 



Ulmus fidva Michaux Boreali-Ameri- 



map no. 2. shows distribution of basswood in nebraska. 



White Ash. 



Fraxlnus americana L. Sp. PI. 1057 

 (1753). In eastern Nebraska from Sarpy 

 county southward. This is the species 

 which many planters supposed they were 

 setting on their farms, while as a matter 

 of fact they were planting the Green Ash. 

 There are many fine trees of the White 

 Ash in the forests along the Missouri 

 River, and in many places in the eastern 

 portion of the State it is successfully grown 

 from plantings. As it is very much more 

 valuable than the Green Ash, wherever 

 possible it should be planted rather than 

 the inferior species. 



Green Ash. 



JFraxinus lanceolata Borkhausen, Hand- 

 book Forst. Bot. (1S00). It received the 

 later name F. viridis by Michaux filius in 

 Histoire des Arbres (1813), and the latter 

 172 (1803). In some recent name has been very generally adopted by 

 lists this bears the name U. fubesceiis American botanists, and is still used in 

 Walter, Flora Caroliniana (17S8), and Gray's and Coulter's Manuals. Common 

 there is reason to believe that this may be along the streams throughout the State, 

 the prior name. Common in the eastern This is the " Ash " which is most com- 



part of the state to Franklin, Adams, Buf- monly planted on the plains, and while it 



