ON TIMBER TREES 
from their Persian parent, which, at thirty-two 
years of age was nine inches in diameter and per- 
haps forty feet high, afforded an object lesson that 
even the most skeptical could not ignore. 
“If new trees are needed to make forests to 
supply the place of those that your thoughtless for- 
bears have destroyed,” the trees seem to say, “why 
not call upon me and my fellows?” 
And to such a question there seems but one 
rational response. The Paradox hybrid and its 
fellows must be called upon to re-stock the rav- 
aged timber lands of America. New hybrids must 
be produced by the union of varied species of 
pines, oaks, and elms, and other timber and orna- 
mental trees, to give diversity to the landscape 
and to supply different types of wood for the uses 
of carpenter and cabinet-maker. 
The Paradox walnut stood there—and still 
stands—as the working model for a new order 
of mechanism—a timber tree that shall be able to 
re-forestrate a treeless region in half a human 
generation with a growth ready for the axe and 
saw of the lumberman. 
THe Materials At HaNnp 
In preparing this new material for the making 
of forest trees, it will be possible, no doubt, to 
bring trees from foreign lands, either for direct 
transplantation or as hybridizing agents. 
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