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steamed unless the soil is wet. He says that in Hungary the 
wood is highly prized for many purposes, that the flowers 
furnish bee food, and that the tree suffers little from disease. 
Throughout thie Rhine regions the locust is grown as a cop- 
pice, with a 15-year rotation. ‘The poles are in great demand 
for vine-props, and the net return is 80 marks a year for one 
hectare—a yield scarcely equalled by any other species of tree. 
The Minister of Agriculture has directed that the locust be 
planted on land which has been heretofore occupied by coppice 
oak, since the tan-bark industry is no longer profitable. ‘The 
' American government should offewa high prize to the entomolo- 
gist who devises a means of exterminating the locust-borer. 
Were it not for the depredations of this insect the locust would 
be one of the most profitable and useful of trees for planting on 
the Jersey sands. It is specially fitted for the purpose because 
of its slight inflammability. 
The Luneburg and other Adjacent Heath and Moor Lands. 
Our prevailing winds are from the land, and in spite of the 
fact that South Jersey is close to the ocean, the climate is dry 
in comparison with the plains of Northern Europe. Almost 
every summer we have a period of extreme drought which is 
very trying to all plants, the roots of which do not penetrate 
to where there is a constant supply of moisture. Several 
species of American trees, such as the red-oak and locust, appear 
to do better in Western Europe than in their native land, while 
Salix amygdalina and Salix viminalis the great European 
basket willows, which are grown in fields by the side of wheat 
and rye, fail in the Eastern United States because of the late 
summer drought. 
Throughout a large part of Southern New Jersey, in those 
' portions which are at a low-level and in which the water-table 
is close to the surface, there is usually a luxuriant growth of 
vegetation, although the soil may be coarse and sandy. Regions 
of a higher altitude, such as the Plains, suffer most from a lack 
of moisture and also from fire in consequence. 
Throughout the Sand-lands of Northern Europe there is little 
variety in the nature of the forest. Wherever there is a clump 
