ON TIMBER TREES 



from their Persian parent, which, at thirty-two 

 years of age was nine inches in diameter and per- 

 haps forty feet high, afforded an object lesson that 

 even the most skeptical could not ignore. 



"If new trees are needed to make forests to 

 supply the place of those that your thoughtless for- 

 bears have destroyed," the trees seem to say, "why 

 not call upon me and my fellows?" 



And to such a question there seems but one 

 rational response. The Paradox hybrid and its 

 fellows must be called upon to re-stock the rav- 

 aged timber lands of America. New hybrids must 

 be produced by the union of varied species of 

 pines, oaks, and elms, and other timber and orna- 

 mental trees, to give diversity to the landscape 

 and to supply different types of wood for the uses 

 of carpenter and cabinet-maker. 



The Paradox walnut stood there and still 

 stands as the working model for a new order 

 of mechanism a timber tree that shall be able to 

 re-forestrate a treeless region in half a human 

 generation v/ith a growth ready for the axe 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. 



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