\OTKS o\ FOKKST AND ORNAMENTAL THEES. 



-nrcd rim. or Corky-\\ -inged elm, is a native of our 

 locality, both in tin* bottoms and on the uplands. It has also been 

 extensively and for long time cultivated on our grounds. The best; 

 specimen!* planted more than thirty years ago are about 35 feet in 

 height. This elm is hardy, but matures and drops it leaves too early, 

 thus st'anding naked during the latter part of the summer, giving a 

 distressed and sterile aspect to the landscape. 



llarklx'n'ti (Crllis orridrnhilix, L.) is a native of Brazos bottom in 

 our vicinity, where the largest specimens mav reach a height of 60 feet. 

 The Ilackhenv was one of the first trees planted on the grounds of the 

 College. 1 have watched the trees for more than twenty years growing 

 in the main avenue of the College grounds, and have been able in all 

 that time to detect increase in size of but a few of them. Their crowns 

 aic of an open, straggling habit; their foliage lacks density and vivid- 

 ness of color, and is dropped early, in the season. 



The HackbeiTv is much planted for avenues and shade in our towns, 

 because it can be easily transplanted from the forest at a height of 15 

 to v?0 feet. The effect of such plantations is the same as that stated 

 for the Small-leaved elm. 



Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia, d.). The Black Locust is more 

 adapted to the cooler climate of the Northern States, where it reaches 

 the proportions of a large tree, than to Texas. Not even in East Texas, 

 where forest trees in general grow so luxuriantly, have I seen a beauti- 

 ful specimen of this tree, but mostly such as were stunted and crippled, 

 either by bores or from other causes. Most of the specimens on our 

 ground were planted in 1889. Only a few are living, and these in a 

 state of decay. 



Mtil>le. The list of 1890 includes the following species: Sugar 

 maple (Acer saccharinum, Wary), Silver maple (A. dasycarpum, Ehr.), 

 Knglisli maple (A. compastre, L.) ? Falce sycamore maple (A. pseudo- 

 piatanum rnr. perpurem) ; Eed maple (.4.. rubrum, L.). As the maples 

 demand a subsoil with an abundant and even supply of moisture, our 

 soil is very uncongenial to them; hence all died after a few years except 

 the Silver-leaved maple, of which a few specimens are still living. Beau- 

 tiful young trees of this species, and even better ones of the Sugar 

 maple, are growing in Henderson, Rusk county, where also the Red 

 maple is a vigorous native growth in the adjacent bottom lands. Though 

 both Sugar maple and Silver maple are native of a Northern climate, 

 the specimens in Henderson show that they can be planted with advan- 

 tage in Texas on a soil that makes up the deficiency of the climate. 



Mii/lnn-i/. The Russian mulberry Ll/o/v/x Tnrfitrica, Land), White 

 mulberry ( 'M. multicautis, Land), and the native Red mulberry (M. 

 nilirn. L.) are included in the above named list. The Russian mul- 

 berry is a small, diffusely branched and unsightly tree or shrub, planted 

 'specially for wind-breaks, but has here shown itself unfit for such 

 use, because it is too low, too open, and apt to drop much of its foliage 

 in midsummer. As it is aroused into growth very early in the spring, 

 it is liable to damage from late frosts. Morns multicaulis is a tree of 

 no special value, either as an ornamental or for other purposes, except 

 in feeding silkworms. It is liable to damage from late spring frosts 

 and soon becomes unsightly. 



