'^ TEAXSACTIOXS. 



■whose ?;rowtli equalled, two feet nine inches last year, and two feet 

 eleven inches the past season. 



The white pine has been cultivated in both England and France, 

 and has been found to grow in height from fifteen inches to three feet 

 annually for sixty years. A tree planted near Paris, grew eighty feet 

 m height and nine feet in circumference in thirty years. The whorl 

 of limbs encircling the trunk marks its annual growth. Says Mr. 

 Emerson, in his Eeport on Trees and Shrubs in Massachusetts, "In 

 I80t) or '10, a belt of pines and other trees was planted on two sides 

 of the Botanic Garden in Cambridge, to protect it from northwest 

 winds. When they had been growing th-irty-one years, ten of the 

 white pines measured by myself, exhibited an average of twenty inches 

 in diameter at the ground. The two largest, measured five feet seven 

 inches in circumference at the ground. One in Hingham, at the age 

 of thirty-two, measured seven feet in circumference at the ground, 

 sTxtT-two feet and six inches in height, averaging annually, nearly an 

 inch in diameter, and two feet in hejo-ht." 



We might, did space allow, give the results of oak plantations and 

 trees of other species, all tending to encourage forest-planting. In 

 closing, we give as one more incentive to tree-culture, the results of 

 the growth o-f the different species of an English plantation of six 

 acres, for twenty years. The soil was wet and swampy, resting upon 

 a substratum' of gravel. 



Averajre cir- 



Average cumf'erence. 



feet in height. ft. in. 



Lombardy Poplar, Popuhts dilatala, 60 to 80 4 8 



Abele, Populus alba, 50 to 70 4 6 



Plane, Platanus occidentalis, 50 to 60 3 6 



Locust, Rolinia acacia, 50 to 60 2 4 



FAm, Uhnus campestris, 40 to 60 3 6 



Chestnut, Castaneavesca, 30 to 50 2 9 



White Pine, Pinus strohus, 30 to 50 2 5 



Spvuce, Abies communis, 30 to 50 2 2 



Larch, Larix communis, 50 to 60 3 10 



Who of the members of the society will commence an experiment 

 in forest-tree-planting, and thus render productive his worn out and 

 unproductive lands? By so doing, he will render the " Old Ilomc- 

 Btead" more of a gem, and prove himself a provident husbandman. 



