TIMBER PLANTING ON THE PRAIRIES AND ELSE- 

 WHERE. 



By Dr. John A. Warder, President Ohio Horticultural Society. 



So much has been said and written in the past years, and so well 

 said and so well written, upon the necessities, the charms, and the 

 profits of timber planting, that it might seem a work of supererogation 

 to add another word, to write another line, upon this subject. 



But a recent trip to one of the prairie states has forcibly brought to 

 mind, both the necessity which so generally prevails over the country, and 

 the charms, the comfort, the delight, and the advantages which are 

 realized by those who have planted freely. Hence it may be well to 

 refer again to the necessity of the many, and also to the comforts of the 

 few, which have followed as the results of the judicious planting of 

 trees about their homes. 



For long stretches across the State of Illinois, even in the lines of the 

 older railways, the traveller is wearied by the expanse of level tracts 

 devoted to agricultui^al products, with vast fields appropriated to the 

 noble cereals of our fertile land, or to the nutritious grasses for pastur- 

 ing numerous herds and flocks. The occupants of the soil ap^^ear to be 

 too grasping for their own good ; some are, perhaps, too parsimonious 

 of their means to appropriate a fraction of their lands to the production 

 of timber, or even to the occupation of a small part of the soil by 



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