RAPIDITY OF GROWTH OF TREES. 



The variation in the growth of trees, due to the influence of many 

 different factors, is very great, and even when trees of the same age 

 are growing side by side great difference in the size and development 

 are noticeable. A chestnut tree will, under certain conditions, attain 

 a diameter of three feet in fifty-six years, while another may require 

 one hundred and fifty years to reach a diameter of eighteen inches. 

 The average diameter of twenty ash trees measured by us was sixteen 

 inches in twenty years, and Italian poplars will occasionally grow 

 twenty-six inches in the same period. On the other hand, many in- 

 stances might be mentioned where trees have made very slow growth. 

 To obtain the approximate growth of trees in any particular locality 

 would require measurements of a very large number of specimens. 



The following list, showing the average growth of trees, is taken 

 from Supt. Fox's report, and represents approximately what a three- 

 inch sapling will develop into in twenty years : 



TRANSPLANTING. 



Too little attention is given to the details of transplanting. It is 

 quite essential that attention should be paid to the soil and moisture 

 conditions suitable for growth. Landscape gardeners recommend 

 planting a few trees well rather than many poorly, and when one 

 recalls the large amount of poor planting seen around dwellings and 

 the weak-looking, half-fed, diseased specimens of trees and shrubs 

 this advice will appear pertinent. 



The funds of towns will not always allow the appropriation of 

 a large sum of money for transplanting trees, and one must do the 

 best he can with the conditions under which he has to labor. 

 Special attention, therefore, should be given to the adaptability of 



