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TREE-SEEDS. 



There were planted at Wilson tree-seeds as follows: 



Fall of 1870. — Allan tus, chestnut, oak, peach, pecan, pinon. 



Spring of 1871. — Ailantus, catalpa, elm, locust, honey-locust, silver- 

 maple, osage-orange, walnut. 



All these seeds, except the pinon, (nut-pine of Kew Mexico, Pinus 

 edulis,) have done remarkably well. 



Seeds of ailantus, catalpa, locust, honey-locust, and osage-orange 

 were tried at Ellis with encouraging prospects, when most of the seed- 

 ling trees were destroyed by the hail-storm of the 1st of June. Seeds of 

 ailantus, sown broadcast during the first week in June, came up well, 

 and the little trees came safely through the summer. 



Seeds of ailantus sown at Pond Creek resulted in a moderate growth 

 of trees, of which a large proportion survived the summer. 



The experiments with tree-seeds, though very limited, have sufficed 

 to show that trees may be grown from seed without irrigation, to the 

 west line of Kansas, and in all probability to the base of the mount- 

 ains. 



Cuttings of cotton- wood, Lombardy and white poplar, and white and 

 golden willow, were tried at Wilson and did well in that locality. Cut- 

 tings of cotton- wood and the willows were also tried at Ellis with a 

 measure of success. 



TRANSPLANTED TREES. 



Trials were made at Wilson of transjDlanted trees of the following 

 kinds : 



EVERGREENS. 



White pine Pinus strohus. 



Scotch pine P. sylvestris. 



Austrian x)ine P. Austriaca. 



Corsican pine P. laricio. 



I^orway spruce Abies excelsa. 



Eed cedar .Junijperus Virginiana. 



DECIDUOTJS. 



Ailantus A. glandulosa. 



Ash Fraxinus Americana. 



Box-elder Negundo aceroides. 



Catalx3a G. hignonoides. 



Chestnut Castanea vesca. 



Cotton- wood Popiilus monilifera. 



Elm TJlmus Americana. 



Honey -locust Gleditscliia triacantJms. 



European larch Larix Furopea. 



Linden Tilia Americana. 



Silver-maple Acer dasycarpum. 



Sycamore-maple A. pseudo-platanus. 



Osage-orange Madura aurantinea. 



Lombardy poplar Populus dilatata. 



White poplar P. alba. 



Tulip-tree Liriodendron tulipifera. 



White willow. '. . Salix alba. 



Golden willow . Salix alba., (var.) 



Walnut Juglans nigra. 



