64 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
timber, twelve years old, was estimated to be worth six 
thousand dollars. Young ash, if cut low at eight years 
of age, and a light furrow turned over the stumps, will 
sprout and be ready for a second cutting in eight 
years. Mr. Budd says ten acres of black ash, planted 
for hoop-poles in rows four feet apart, may be half 
thinned in five years, and at three cents per pole will 
yield $1620. The remaining half, or fifty-four thou- 
sand poles, cut two years later for large hoop-poles, 
at six cents per pole, will yield $4860. The ash seed 
should be sown in the fall, in rows two feet apart, 
and covered with one inch of earth. In winter scat- 
ter a litter of straw three inches deep over the ground. 
The straw should be renewed early in the spring. 
The plants will grow as soon as the frost is gone, 
and will be twelve to fourteen inches high by fall. 
This will make an admirable nursery, from which the 
trees should be transplanted when one year old, and 
set out in the forest ground four feet apart. Work the 
ground the same as for corn, and keep the weeds down ; 
the closer the trees are planted the straighter they will 
grow, and be free from lower limbs. 
THE WHITE ASH. 
The ashes greatly resemble each other in their quality 
of wood, but for profit and cultivation the white and 
blue ashes undoubtedly lead. Most of the farm utensils 
manufactured in this country are partially constructed 
of ash, and on this account are greatly preferred by the 
European farmer to those manufactured in his own coun- 
try ; this is owing to the excellence of the ash used in 
their construction. Owing to the rapid consumption of 
ash, not only for farming utensils, but for any purpose 
where toughness and durability are wanted, there is not 
the slightest doubt that the ash will be one of the most 
profitable trees planted. 
The white ash is one of our largest trees when it has 
