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seed collected farther south. Experiments seem to show that seed 

 from the slow-growing "pond" form of cypress will produce inferior 

 stock to that grown from seed from thrifty trees favorably situated. 

 Because the poorer seed is much more accessible, it is apt to find its 

 way freely to the market. No point of difference is known by which 

 to distinguish seed from the two or more botanical forms. 



PLANTING. 



Practically all experience points to the general hardiness and adapt- 

 ability of cypress for planting hi forest stands. The best time for 

 planting appears to be during late fall or early winter, so that the 

 seedlings can become established during the subsequent period of low 

 water. Planting in the spring should be done just before the buds 

 begin to swell. Although leafless in winter, like the hardwoods, 

 cypress requires care in handling in keeping the roots always moist 

 and the fine rootlets as intact as possible; in this respect, cypress 

 appears intermediate between the hardwoods and ordinary conifers. 



Seedlings are best transplanted at the end of the first or second 

 year; the older and larger stock will be found preferable for tracts 

 inundated for periods of considerable duration. One-year stock will 

 likely be found satisfactory hi ordinary situations. Cypress seed- 

 lings are semiaquatic and will grow standing in shallow water. 



Since the foliage is browsed, protection against grazing animals 

 when closely confined is necessary in order to avoid injury to 

 plantations. 



Because of the small amount of cypress that has been planted, evi- 

 dence based upon measurements can not be furnished to show the 

 financial results to be expected. Hence it is impossible at this time 

 to offer any definite recommendations in regard to the advisability of 

 planting cypress on a commercial scale. 1 Material of the sort needed 

 to form a basis for such recommendations will become available 

 with the further development of young planted stands, and additional 

 experience in methods of planting. 



The central Mississippi, Ohio Valley, and middle Atlantic coast 

 regions offer promise of being well adapted to commercial planting. 

 A- with all species of trees, the profitableness depends essentially 

 upon various Local conditions after all questions of growth and gen- 

 eral adaptability of die species from a silvie.ulti.mil standpoint have 

 been settled. Planted cottonwood, for example, has proved to be 

 profitable or some of the heavy, less valuable bottoms of the central 

 Mississippi Valley. 2 Unless treated, however, its wood is very short 

 lived in contact with the soil, while the heart wood of cypress is ver\ 

 durable, and therefore well fitted m this respect for such uses as posts, 



Vddre i the State Pore tar, Wooster, 

 Ohio. 

 2 Hull. ..'I, U. ■-. Dept. ol .\;t., "Cottonwood In the Mi I IppJ Valley." 



