&EED-TABLES. 



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1. Number of Tree-Seeds in a Pound. 



FRUIT TREES. 



About. 



Apple 12,000 



Cherry Pits 1,000 



Peach 200 



Pear 15,000 



Plum 000 



Quince 15,000 



Mulberry 200,000 



FOREST TREES. 



Butternut Juglans cinerea 



Black Walnut Juglans nigra . 



American Horse-Chestnut 

 Hickory (Shellbark) . . 

 American Sweet Chestnut 

 Silver-leaved Maple . . 

 Honey-locust .... 



^sculus glabra . . , 

 Carya alba . . . . , 

 Castanea vesca, var. 

 Acer dascycarpum . 

 Gleditschia triacanthos 



Black Cherry Prunus serotina . . 



Black Ash Fraxinus sambucifolia 



American Basswood .... Tilia Americana . . 



Norway Maple Acer platanoides . . 



Sugar Maple Acer saccharinum . 



Barberry Berberis vulgaris 



Red Cedar Juniperus Virginiana 



Rock Elm Ulmus racemosa . . 



American White Ash . . . Fraxinus Americana 



Osage Orange Madura aurantiaca . 



Silver Fir Abies pectinata . . 



Box Elder Negundo aceroides . 



Hardy Catalpa Catalpa speciosa . . 



Ailanthus Ailanthus glandulosus 



AVhite Pine Pinus Strobus . . . 



Scarlet Maple Acer rubrum . . . 



By count. 



15 



25 



36 



78 



90 



2,421 



2,496 



4,311 



5,629 



6,337 



7,231 



7,488 



8,183 



8,321 



8,352 



9,858 



10,656 



12,000 



14,784 



19,776 



20,161 



20,540 



22,464 



