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blossoms that perfume the air to a great distance. In 

 addition to these, the pines which are native to the coun- 

 try may be grown; also oaks, all varieties of which 

 flourish here. 



PENNSYLVANIA ARBOR DAY. 

 BY SAMUEL C. MOON, MORBISVILLE, PENN. 



Tree planting with an idea of creating timber tracts has 

 not yet been practiced to much extent in this section, be- 

 cause the country is naturally well wooded and generally 

 with valuable kinds, and cleared land is considered too 

 valuable for anything but pasturage or tillage. There 

 are, however, on almost every farm, steep hillsides or 

 rough, stony corners, which could be more profitably 

 utilized by growing trees, either fruit or timber, than in 

 any other way. White oak is our most valuable native 

 tree, but it requires a century to raise a crop of them, and 

 few Americans want to look so far ahead for returns of 

 their labor. Chestnut is probably the most profitable 

 timber tree, as it grows large enough for rails or wire 

 fence posts in ten, and attains maturity in forty or fifty, 

 years. Chestnuts cut in winter sucker from the stump, 

 and are thus perpetuated indefinitely. I think it is not 

 too sweeping to say that every farm house should have 

 some evergreens about it. It has been said that the 



