ve FOREST TREES. 
six to ten dollars per bushel in the market, and have 
even been sold for twelve dollars; so that an acre of 
well-grown Chestnut trees may be the source of con- 
siderable profit aside from the value of the timber. 
Trees fifteen years old are, commonly, large enough 
to produce a peck of fruit each, and eighty to a hun- 
dred trees of that age will grow on an acre without 
greatly interfering with each other. Lands utterly 
worthless for cultivation, may be made to yield an 
income by planting them with the Chestnut. 
The nuts become larger by cultivation. The third 
generation has been grown in Illinois, and, after each 
successive planting, the nuts were increased in size. 
Dr. B. T. Long of Alton, has repeatedly exhibited 
Chestnut burrs from a tree of his own raising, each 
containing seven perfect nuts. This, he stated, was 
its customary, though not uniform, habit of produc- 
tion. The European variety produces larger fruit 
than the American, but it is less sweet and rich, and 
the tree is less hardy, not enduring the winters of 
Northern linois. 
One great advantage belonging to the Chestnut 
over most other trees, is the facility with which it is 
renewed after being cut down. Sprouts spring up 
from the stumps and grow with astonishing rapidity ; 
needing no other care than the exclusion of stock, 
and thinning where they are too numerous. In fif- 
teen years this new growth will be large enough to 
cut a second time. In this way a grove may be 
reproduced for an indefinite period of time. The 
cutting should always be done in the winter. 
