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and towered as beautiful and symmetrical trees 

 to the height of sixty feet, standing just across 

 the street from their Persian parent, which at 

 thirty-two years of age was nine inches in diam- 

 eter and perhaps forty feet high, afforded an 

 object lesson that even the most skeptical could 

 not ignore. 



The Royal and Paradox hybrids and their fel- 

 lows must be called upon to restock the ravaged 

 timber lands of America. New hybrids must 

 be produced by the union of varied species of 

 pines, oaks, and elms, and other timber and 

 ornamental trees, to give diversity to the 

 landscape and to supply different types of 

 wood for the uses of carpenter and cabinet- 

 maker. 



The Royal and Paradox walnuts — as the 

 working model for a new order of mechanism — 

 a timber tree that shall be able to reforest a 

 treeless region in half a human generation 

 with a growth ready for the ax and saw of 

 the lumberman. 



The Materials at Hand 



In preparing this new material for the making 

 of forest trees, it will be possible, no doubt, to 

 bring trees from foreign lands, either for direct 

 transplantation or as hybridizing agents. 



