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Art. [V.—Notes on some features of the Flora of Hastern Kansas ; 
Ligv HALL. 
[The following enone of two articles (somewhat curtailed) 
published in the rie Farmer, which give so clear an exposition 
of the general Jentares of the vegetation 1 of the region under con- 
sideration, that we have sought and obtaine permission to repro- 
uce them in this Journal. —Eps. | 
TREE GROWTH.—In a trip in September last in a wagon 
ough a portion of Eastern Kansas, from Forts tt and 
Humboldt north to Leavenworth and Atchison, I had excellent 
question arises ge te all these aiwatted. distorted _abnormally 
elbage ae specimens everywhere, as compared with the true 
e of trees, such as we are accustomed to in our own noble 
denizen of the Mississippi aah forests. True, on the larger 
, the black alluvial t grow some very fine speci- 
mens of black walnut, pace and elms, but this area is 
quite limited. 
We should naturally infer from this character of the native 
arborescent growth of the country that causes had been long 
existing and were yet in operation to produce so general a result ; : 
but since the settlement or since the planting of trees has 
commenced there by the inhabitants, everywhere living e vided 
ces are springing up directly opposing all such inferences. In 
some parts of Jefferson county, artificial groves only ten years 
old, are already 50 feet high, and appearing, through the misty 
haze 0 autumn, like natural groves on the prairies of central 
Illinois. There are evidences, too, that the native growth, that 
is, the young trees, in all the givaby regions, are making good 
speed in becoming saplings of proper sa rtions; this is par- 
ticularly so of the hickory, rabata alba and C. poreina. 
ese many facts satisfy us that the mee of the abnormal 
tree growth here are not ascribable to an uncongenial ate, 
nor to aridity or sterility of soil, nor to exposure, for the flour- 
ishing artificial groves in Jefferson county are upon as hich 
land as there is probably in the 00 so near the Missouri river. 
trees, e, h, pear, and the 
vine, during the past season, 5 Tee podisoe, oe 
PECIES AND DISTRIBUTION oF NATIVE Pres ‘ite Oak 
Family is represented by Quercus obtusiloba everywhere in the 
eye) rope re Laa as dwarfed low trees and bushes. 
is less abundant, but occurs throughout, some 
specimens sedagod ‘heey proportions, @. Prinus, (var. humilis,) every 
