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“Within the past few years an increasing interest has been 
manifested in the black locust tree, Robinia pseudacacia. Many 
persons have begun to propagate it, not only as a wayside tree, 
but as a forest product; and issues of the public press lately 
ng its gt 
oe for economic uses. Several! of the articles referred 
ave mentioned the fact that one of the great railroad com- 
panies has, within the past two years, planted on its Pennsylvania 
lands nearly a million and a half of trees of this species with 
also known that many smaller, but still extensive, enterprises 
of this kind, under both corporate and individual management, 
are in progress in a di ferent parts of our country. The aggregate 
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sound advice, which they imply. The fateful destiny of this. 
tree has been long known and until recently it has Dees poy 
neglected; but by most persons the facts 
are now forgotten or disregarded. From boone Obserarions, 
art of th 
of North America, with the possible exception presently to be 
mentioned, will result in failure so far as suitable returns in 
practical value of the product is concerned. The subject there- 
ore has, with comparative suddenness, become of public im- 
portance, and my chief object in writing this article is the utter- 
ance of a public eouton concerning it, especially directed to 
industrial interests. 
ove paragraph from Mr. White’s article which was 
written nts as a prediction and a caution against the cultivation 
