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brilliant feature of the scene. Its special peculiarity appears ni the lai i iti<ii ii 

 becomes more and more golden all summer, until, in mid-autumn, it stands a 

 bright yellow flame of health and vigor amid the dull and fading tints of fall. It 

 is one of the choicest of recent introductions and holds its foliage late. The 

 Liquid Amber presents the deepest, darkest crimson on its more or less star- 

 shaped leaves. This tree is of smaller size than maples, tulips or oaks, but is 

 one of half a dozen thoroughly excellent autumn trees. It is round headed, has 

 a straight rough stem, and is altogether a very characteristic American tree. — S. 

 Parsons, in Landscape Gardening. 



GOOD WORDS FOR THE CHESTNUT TREE. 



Having for the last ten years been looking after forest-tree growing with a 

 considerable degree of interest, I am now convinced that the chestnut ought to 

 be more extensively planted in the future by our great American people than it 

 has been in the past. An erroneous notion has gone out that the American 

 chestnut is not hardy in the North-West. This is a mistake, as a rule. There 

 are trees here in Marshall county, 111., that are fifty years old, and seem to be as 

 hardy as the ordinary forest trees of our country. They are bearing heavy crops 

 of nuts annually. 



The chestnut belongs to the oak family. It is a beautiful growing tree, with 

 a smooth bark and a long, smooth, beech-shaped foliage that is free from the 

 insect pests. The timber grows very rapidly. It is valuable for fences, railroad 

 ties, fuel, and many other purposes. The stump when cut off throws up suckers 

 that in a few years make trees again. 



The nuts are an article of commerce. They usually bring from $5 to $10 

 per bushel. 



The chestnut makes a very valuable food for hogs. It can be ground and 

 made a very valuable food for all other animals and poultry. The chestnut 

 meal can be baked into a good, wholesome, nutritive bread for the human family 

 to subsist on, and thus become a substitute for wheat, corn and buckwheat. 



I hope that the nurserymen of our great nation will procure nuts and grow 

 chestnut seedlings on a large scale, so that ihey can be sold cheap, and planted 

 for lawn, park, street and roadside trees. 



Our railroads can plant them on each side of their tracks. .\s soon as they 

 are old or large enough they can be cut for ties. The stumps will sprout and 

 produce another lot of ties. The tops can be used for fuel to keep up steam, 

 and thus create an era of cheap railroading in time. These trees will also have 

 great quantities of nuts for the market, annually giving employment to a great 

 many laborers in gathering them. .\. H. Gaston in Prairie Farmer. 



