1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



511 



SCENE IN AN OSAGE ORANGE PLANTATION. 



value of $524.04. The land probably 

 could not have been put to any other 

 use that would have brought greater 

 returns. 



The Osage Orange reproduces from 

 sprouts very readily. This quality 

 allows the planter to take successive 

 crops of posts from the same plantation 

 for years. The young shoots grow up 

 from the stump with such vigor that 

 the second crop is more likely to consist 



of straight, smooth post timber than 

 the first. 



The Osage Orange is a shade-endur- 

 ing tree, and, as mentioned above, grows 

 well when associated with other trees. 

 The thorns of the tree make it often de- 

 sirable to plant it in pure plantations, 

 as in this way by thick planting it will 

 better clean itself of side branches, and 

 the need of tillage may be reduced to 

 a minimum. 



THE EUCALYPTS. 



A vSTUDY OF THE LEADING SPECIES OF THE MOST EXTEN- 

 SIVELY CULTIVATED EXOTIC TREE IN THE UNITED STATES. 



THE Eucalypts, commonly known States, where they have been planted 

 as the Blue or Red Gums in for forty years past, are discussed in a 

 the southwestern part of the United bulletin just issued b}^ the Bureau of 



