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gradually (keeping stock out in the 

 meantime) one or more acres at a time 

 as may be needed for fuel, etc., and 

 then in proper place for forest and 

 shelter, or on the land inconvenient to 

 cultivate, begin a neAv forest by plant- 

 ing out I'egularly just such trees as I 

 want for fuel, manufacturing or pro- 

 tection, to be ready by the time the 

 old forest has been cut away. 



If the growing trees are of a valu- 

 able kind, and the owner has skill and 

 patience to begin and carry on a judi- 

 cious thinning, an old forest can be 

 rapidly improved, but I fancy most 

 proprietors will leave to a thoughtless 

 employee to do the wood cutting, and it 

 often happens that to pick out inferior 

 or dying scattered trees will make the 

 wood dearer than to buy it, and it may 

 do serious injury. I tind it stated in a 

 late Ontario report that an owner re 

 moved the worthless elms from a lot 

 and soon after found that he had done 

 too much thinning, for the other, and 

 what he thought valuable trees, ceased 

 growing and soon began to fail, and as 

 a rule it will be safer to depend on the 

 new planting for the future forest, at 



least on such small lots as our farms 

 will retain. 



To me it is much more encouraging, 

 for in laying out the forest the various 

 trees, the maple for fuel, the hickory, 

 ash and oak for the factory, thie cherry, 

 basswood and walnut for indoor use, 

 the pine and cedar for outside, I feel 

 as if I wei*e furnishing the property 

 with an atti'action for myself and 

 future owners, more than by the big- 

 gest castle I could find room for on the 

 highest hill. 



The Black Cherry for Foresters. 



RoBEUT Douglas, the great forest 

 tree planter of the West, pronounces 

 the wild Black Cherry (P. serotina), 

 to be even more profitable to the 

 planter than the Black Walnut. His 

 reasons are ( 1 ) The trees can be planted 

 closer ; (2) They grow easily in dry 

 soil ; (3) They do not injure vegetation 

 beneath ; (4) They attain full size for 

 cabinet makers' use in half the time ; 

 and (5) The wood brings in some 

 markets quite as high a price. 



