CHAPTER XIII. 
KINDS OF TREES TO PLANT. 
The White, Blue, Black, Green, Red, and European Ashes,—Their 
Growth, Usefulness, and Manner of Culture. —Climate and Soil 
best Suited to their Growth.— Distinguishing Traits and Proper- 
ties of Varieties.—The Mountain Ash.—Its Deportment, Uses, and 
Manner of Propagating.—Its Enemies.—The American Flowering 
Ash Described. 
Ir is not so difficult to raise timber as many people 
imagine. The lack of correct information on this sub- 
ject is, I believe, to a great extent the reason why so 
little timber is planted. If farmers only knew how to 
plant, and when and where, they would not be slow to 
raise trees. Now let us see if we cannot give some sim- 
ple directions for the planting of trees. First, then, 
SHE ASH. 
This is one of the best trees for forest-culture. It 
grows rapidly, is easily raised, and of great money value. 
Mr. Hollenbeck, of Nebraska, has, in Douglas County, a 
piece of ash timber he planted in 1861, and many of the 
trees now measure thirty-eight inches in circumference, 
and are over forty feet high. Mr. Budd, of Iowa, has 
a grove that has done better still. He says ten acres, 
thinned to six feet apart, contained twelve thousand 
trees, and at twelve years of age were eight inches in 
diameter and thirty-five feet high. The wood from thin- 
ning paid all expenses of planting and cultivation. The 
bodies of the trees cut out sold for forty cents each, and 
the tops were worth ten cents more. Ten acres of this 
