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;t little of it has t". > n 1 1 • 1 a market Bave in the rural districts of the 

 M saissippi. With the progressive destruction "t' our forests, and 



I ■ : « - n t increasing scarcity of coniferous w Is, the resources offered 



by this will doubtless be largely drawn upon. The Bupply offered 



l>y tins tree bids fair to remain important for many years. It now exists 

 on not far from thirty thousand miles of surface within the United States 

 At almost all points within the areas where it is found it -row- with rapid* 

 ity and to . and it is more generally accessible to water trans* 



•n than any other timber tree. The ground it occupies is usually 

 imable, or of difficult subjugation. There is, therefore, no better 

 nursery f>r timber than these swamps. It', as is likely. the artificial 



planting of these trees can • asily managed, there can be uo doubt of 



the profitableness of their culture. Lands suitable for such purpos 



be bought for a few cents per acre. Much of it is still Government land 



in be acquired under the law regulating the sale of swamp lands. 



- the advantage of cheap lands and easy transportation, these forests 



security from the devastations of fire, which arc bo Berious 



a hindrance to the profitable cultivation of most of our economic woods, 



illy the conifers. It n Is no argument to .-how that a cypress 



swamp is perfectly secure from this danger. I -1" not believe that in our 

 ordinary swamp- the trees could be placed marly as close together as the 

 - in a pane wo, ,|-. 

 All our cypress -wimp- commonly have a good deal of their surface 



occupied by | Is and sloughs, where the water is too deep for the tr 



by hummocks, where the land is too high to afford the best stations u<r this 



I am inclined to believe, however, that it can be safely estimated 



that the trees may be planted twenty feet apart, or about one hundred to 



■il that they will, in twenty years, attain a >i/.e at which they 



rchantable. The tree is probably adult at sixty years, 



attaining then an a* imeter of about three feet, and a beight of 



almoin ninety, although it continues to grow until, in favorable positions, 



Jit of one hundred and fifty feet, and a diameter oi 



With the incn jht, il rapidly becomes of less mer* 



ble quality. I am satisfied that the trees ma) be grown to the full 



si*" that Utility requires at i than forty feet apart, or 



twenty trees to the 1 - between ma) be occupied by 



r the young cypress is tolerant of the densest Bhade. 



