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PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



profitable investments, as he declares. He recently sold $30,000 worth of fence 

 posts from the thinnings of this tract, yet has as many remaining which are for 

 sale. 



Several more recent plantings have been made by private parties, ranging 

 from fiftv to five hundred acres. 



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XATl'UAL CROVVTII or CATALPA SI'KCIOSA 



Three years ago the more modern system (if planting at greater distances was 

 begun, the plantation of the Illinois Central Railway Company, at Harahan, La., 

 eight miles from Xew Orleans, being prominent. This tract was formerly a 

 sugar plantation, the land having been left in high ridges seven feet apart, with 

 many deep ditches for drainage. This distance seemed too close, and part of 

 the tree rows were planted on alternate sugar-cane ridges, while in the rice land 



