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or six gain a height of more than three hundred 

 feet. We have thirty-eight species of the oak, 

 and five of the ash, second only to the oak in 

 value. There are not more than fifty species 

 of forest-trees in all Europe worth cultivating. 

 Out of this great variety of trees with which 

 our country abounds, there is comparatively 

 little difficulty in finding valuable kinds adapt- 

 ed to almost any situation. There are the ma- 

 ples and birches, the beeches and elms. There 

 are the walnuts, black and white, the latter 

 more commonly known as the butternut. 

 There are the hickories, peculiarly American 

 trees, and for which there is a great demand 

 in Europe as well as in our country, for uses 

 where strength and toughness are needed. 

 There is the chestnut, quick growing and use- 

 ful for so many purposes, and whose fruit by 

 cultivation would be made to exceed that of 

 the Spanish in size and value. There are the 

 tulip, or white-wood, and the bass, or linden- 

 trees, and the sycamore and the various gum- 

 trees, with the hackberry, the cherry, and the 

 locust. And then there are the fifty species 

 of cone-bearing trees, the pines, spruces, and 



