FOREST GROWTH IN OHIO. 



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vation, and such as were found otherwise. Eeferring to the report for 

 details, we will simply classify them by name : 



Hardi). 



Pinus sylvestris. 

 Austriaca. 



Pyreneaca. 



strobus. 

 Abies excelsa. 



Canadensis. 

 Picea balsamea. 



Parson ii. 

 Junipenis Virginiana. 

 Cupressus thuyoides. 

 Thuja occidentalis. 



Eequire some shelter. 



Pinus larico. 



Australia. 



excelsa. 

 Abies Douglasii. 



Abies Smitbiana. 

 Picea pectinata. 



pinsapo. 

 Taxus baccata. 



Worthy of cultivation. 



Pinus ponderosa. 

 Abies Menziesii. 



orientalis. 

 Picea Nordmaniana. 



Cephalonica. 

 Cupressus Lawsoniana. 

 Nootkaensis. 

 Taxodium distichum. 

 Thuja Siberica. 



plicata. 



Not sufficiently tested. 

 Pinus aristata. 



Picea uobilis. 



bracteata. 

 Pinus amabilis. 

 Retinosporus — 



Of no great value. 



Pinus inops. 

 Biotia orientalis. 



May he used in ornamental 



planting. 

 Pinus Mugho. 



pumila. 



pungens. 



flexilis. 



alba. 

 Picea pichta. 

 Taxus adpressa. 

 Salisburia adiantifola. 



Hamilton County. — An experiment in tree-planting is cited by Dr. 

 John A. Warder, upon the authority of Ezra Sherman, of the White- 

 water village of the United Society at Preston, Ohio: 



The seeds of locusts and cedars were planted in 1830. In three years the locusts 

 were set out in a grove of 15 acres, at 12 feet distance from each other. An avenue 

 was planted along a public highway for 200 rods in extent. Mr. Sherman considers 

 that the stakes, poles, and pasture of this grove have been worth as much as it would 

 have yielded if free of trees. (!) 



lu 1870 two-thirds of the trees along the road were cut down. These 180 trees made 

 1,5 '0 posts, worth 35 cents each, or $525 — that is, from $8 to $d per tree. The stakes 

 and top- wood were worth something besides. Some of the trees in the grove are con- 

 sidered worth $10 apiece, and the 15 acres thus stocked are exi)ected to furnish fence- 

 posts for tho whole farm of 1,500 acres for all time. The cedars, though of much slower 

 growth, are highly valued. They will make 8 posts, against 30 of the locust trees * * * 

 After the first two years the borers were not troublesome. — {Transac. of Kansas State 

 Board of Agriculture, 1873, p. 263.) 



HoLJiES County. — Wheu this county was first settled, perhaps no part of Ohio pro- 

 duced a greater variety and superior quality of timber than was found growing among 

 our hills. It was not uncommon to see growing on the hillsides and ridge-lauds poplar 

 trees 100 feet in height, and without a limb for 60 to 80 feet, carrying their thickness 

 over three-fourths of their length. The principal varieties of timber are oak, poplar, 

 sugar-maple, walnut, chestnut, beech, hickory, hackberry, pawpaw, dogwood, and iron- 

 wood. — (Cr. F. Neivton in " Essay on Holmes County." Ohio Agricultural Report, 1873, 

 p. 220.) 



This writer notices that since the clearing away of the forest there is 

 a marked difference in the climate. The old-fashioned Indian summers 

 have nearly disappeared, giving i)lace to cold falls and early winters. 

 Ho asserts that the winters are now a month to six weeks longer than 

 they were thirty years before, and that the cold winds now come from 

 the southwest. 



In the session of 1873 efforts were made to secure an act of the legis- 

 lature in Ohio to encourage the planting of trees, and a committee of 

 the State Horticultural Society prepared a bill that was approved by 

 many members; but it was found that the constitution forbade the 

 exemption of private property from taxation under any pretext, and this 

 circumstance hindered the enactment of the proposed law.^ 



» Transactions of Ohio State Hort. Soc, 1874, p. 58. 



