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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 the 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 offer a 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 infiammability. 



The Luneburgf 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 ried-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 



