]t; AMERICANFOKESTKY 



,. of fourteen inches. The taper is very slight, the twelve-inch diameter 

 iiiIiM|1111I1 , r ,, ,,, about 25 ft. .i- well up onto the reddish part of the trunk, 

 after whirl, it siiddrnlv tumbles in and branches to the crown limbs. Total 

 ., .,,,, f or ty feet, of which all but about twelve feet of crown is saw 

 lumber. The branches nf the crown, down to about an inch, are sold for 

 firewood, and. if DO fa-.-ot -gatherers are at hand, the rest is piled in rectangular 

 ,,il,.,. Borne rii I'.v ten feet by seventy feet high. I did not see any being burnt. 

 Tl..-\' could easily shovel in sand layers in the pile and allow the whole to 

 reduce ii-elf to n.mpost for planting operations. I did not have the oppor- 

 tunity to examine the interior of a pile, and, as it was not the planting season, 

 n,, tiling WBB l-eing done with them. 



METHOD OF PLANTING KIEPER 



i m- .f tin- objects of my tour was to see whether the method of planting- 



I'.aron ManieiiMVl, extensively used in Saxony during his administration. 



chid forester, had extended itself to Prussia and Hesse, or was being still 



Saxony. It consists essentially in surrounding the roots of each small 



Mt \\ith a little hill of compost, and covering this with a cone of sod, made- 



of IUM crescents of turf lapping to a cone with the grass side in. It is a 



n.li'l. if costly method, as it surrounds the roots of the young plant with 

 tli.- inn Hi ions vapors from the compost and the sod, engendered by the heat 

 .,f ih.. sun upon the outside of the cone. It was highly successful with spruce 

 during the Huron's time, as it not only raised the young tree above the 

 surrounding vegetation, but also kept it free from sogginess and cold. 



lie, \\.-\t-r, I saw no kiefer planted that way. The invariable method was 



to plant in holes, with the root collet level with the prevailing soil, and com- 



.1 round the roots. I saw no trees planted under three years old, and 



MS a good thing when we reflect how subject to fungus diseases, such 



/. pine is during its early years in the nursery. It is well to have it 



"it can be watched and guarded during the earliest years, and doubt- 



the expense of another year in the nursery more than offsets the extra 



i the Mantenffel method of planting for young plants which would other- 

 6 l>c advisable in the field. 



'he majority of the cuttings were in long strips, a mile or so long by, 



'our hundred feet wide; though one occasionally met square or irregular 



As ;i rule i lie stumps were pulled and sold before replanting, 



and then yon saw a section with the young trees missing, the 



lumps of the former stand. Virtually the only pine forest I saw with 



ural reproduction was a big tract of eight or nine hundred acres near 



vhich forest appeared to be all natural reproduction. Its newly 



wet ions contained a thick furr of young pines, with seed trees 



still standing, but the trees on the 20 and 30-year 



were not nearly so straight as with the planted sections of the majority 



of tin- (it-nnan kiefer forests. 



'. 'he physical characteristics of kiefer are much the same as the Sylvester 



It will reach TO to 80 feet high and 18 to 20 inches diameter 



if allowed an S()-year revolution; all the upper third of it has a sort of reddish- 



