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yellow, giving a pleasant variety to the autumn surroundings. It is a rapid 

 grower, and well worth a place in the grove or on the lawn. Gather the 

 fruit (about the size of a pea) in November ; mix with sand and sow early in 

 spring. 



OSAGE ORANGE. 



In groves this tree grows quite rapidly, and is not often severely injured 

 by winter as far north as the 43d parallel. If tried in groves, secure the 

 plants from those grown for hedging. If the time ever comes when we 

 grow the oranges -on the hardy variety of the Maclura, we can then be sure 

 of the Qsecge as a hedge plant. There is no more heavy, hard or strong and 

 durable timber grown than this, and after it has attained a few years' age it 

 is a rapid grower. 



MULBERRY. 



Our native Bed mulberry, in timber belts, grows rapidly and retains perfect 

 health on nearly all soils. In isolated positions, especially if exposed to the 

 prairie winds, it soon grows dingy and feeble and dies. The birds usually 

 claim the fruit, so that seed is hard to procure. Strong cuttings, set deeply 

 in the fall, will usually grow. If sprouts are split off from low cut stumps, 

 the lower section is sure to root well. 



BUFFALO-BERRY. 



This beautiful tree is a native of the Missouri bluffs. It is worth growing 

 for ornament, and will richly repay the trouble of growing by its crop of 

 pleasant acid fruit for culinary use. 



Plant in clumps, so as to be certain of securing staminate and pistillate 

 trees. Without this you will have no fruit. It will grow readily from seed 

 kept dry; but soak until it begins to swell, then cover an inch deep in moist 

 dirt. 



HARDY CATALPA, 



A tree useful and profitable for shade, ornamental lawns and timber. 



This tree bears seed very young, often in from four to ten years from 

 planting, so that in a few years after its introduction into any locality, home 

 grown seed can be obtained, and the means for extensive propagation will 

 be abundant. 



The seed is produced in a long, round pod, about the size of an ordinary 

 driving whip, and from ten to twenty inches in length ; these pods are a 

 third larger and longer than those grown on the tender variety, but the lat- 

 ter produces from five to ten times as many seeds as the other. The seeds 

 are small and flat and are enveloped in a light, feathery husk about an inch 

 in length, and each pod will contain about fifty seeds. A pound of good seed 

 will produce from two to three thousand plants, and the price of the seed 

 is three dollars per pound. 



Robert Douglas & Sons, of Waukegan, Illinois, and Woodsworth & Co, 



