SEED-TABLES. 103 

 4. Number of Tree-Seeds in a Pound. 



FRUIT TREES. 



About. 



Apple 12,000 



Cherry Pits 1,000 



Peach 200 



Pear 15,000 



Plum 600 



Quince 15,000 



Mulberry 200,000 



FOREST TREES. 



By count. 



Butternut Juglans cinerea ... 15 



Black Walnut Juglans nigra .... 25 



American Horse-Chestnut . . ^Esculus glabra ... 36 



Hickory (Shellbark) .... Caiya alba 78 



American Sweet Chestnut . . Castanea vesca, var. . 90 



Silver-leaved Maple .... Acer dascycarpum . . 2,421 



Honey-locust Gleditschia triacanthos 2,496 



Black Cherry Prunus serotina ... 4,311 



Black Ash Fraxinus sambucifolia . 5,629 



American Bass wood .... Tilia Americana . . . 6,337 



Norway Maple Acer platanoides . . . 7,231 



Sugar Maple Acer saccharinum . . 7,488 



Barberry Berberis vulgaris . . 8,183 



Red Cedar Juniperus Virginiana . 8,321 



Rock Elm . Ulmus racemosa . . . 8,352 



American White Ash . . . Fraxinus Americana . 9,858 



Osage Orange Maclura aurantiaca . . 10,656 



Silver Fir Abies pectinata . . . 12,000 



Box Elder Negundo aceroides . . 14,784 



Hardy Catalpa Catalpa speciosa . . . 19,776 



Ailanthus Ailanthus glandulosus . 20,161 



White Pine Pinus Strobus .... 20,540 



Scarlet Maple Acer rubrum .... 22,464 



