468* [Assembly 



There is a tree called the yellow oak, a good timber tree ; but 

 whether the color yellow can be made from it, I cannot tell, but 

 from its scientific name, quercus primus accuminata^l should think 

 not. The resinous tree constitutes a very large family of our forest 

 trees. There is the pine, cedar, fir, hemlock, larch, cypress, &c. 

 These trees, some of them, will grow and flourish in any latitude, 

 from the polar regions to the equator. They are mostly ever- 

 greens, some of them very tall and majestic ; beautiful too for 

 their stems or bodies, limbs and foliage, and all yield more or less 

 resin or turpentine. We have every kind of them in our country, 

 in numbers, and some kinds in every section. All are first rate 

 for timber in different ways. The pine, cedar, larch, hemlock and 

 cypress rank first, but from the destruction committed by our 

 lumber merchants and hewers of wood, they will also become 

 scarce and dear with many others of our forests, and not a very 

 long time either before this happens. To show how they nurse 

 and cultivate their forests in Europe, and especially in Great Bri- 

 tain, the late duke of Athol, a Scotch nobleman, planted on his 

 estates in the mountainous parts of Scotland, in about 50 years, 

 nearly two millions of larch trees, and on land that was good for 

 little else, and did not lose from these one in a thousand, all pros- 

 pering and doing well, except what has been cut for timber. 

 Other gentlemen in England and Scotland followed the example, 

 and transplanted a great many. In England they did not do so 

 well ; it was supposed to be too far south, and the ground not sufiS.- 

 cientlyhigh, rough and mountainous. The larch is found to be the 

 best timber for almost every purpose in husbandry or mechanics. 

 Boats built of larch in England have been found sound, when the 

 ribs of another made of oak and built about the same time, were 

 decayed, and this in about forty years. 



Amos Gore, of New-Jersey, presented some seedling potatoes 

 raised by him from the seed now the third year. They are of 

 good size, moderate oblong, dark skin. The club tasted them 

 boiled, and thought them good. Mr. Gore has about fifty bushels 

 to sell. • 



Something was said about the improvement of the blackberry 

 by cultivation. 



