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" A butternut between forty-seven aiid forty-eight years old measured six feet round 

 the stem, four feet from the ground, and has attained a height of seventy-five feet. 



, " Of two ash trees planted fifty years ago, one is sixty feet high, with a girth of six 

 feet five inches ; the other about fifty-five feet high, girth a little over six feet (three feet 

 from the ground). 



" It will be seen from this memorandum that the elm has made the most rapid 

 growth of all these trees, and the maples come next, although the ash is close upon them. 



"Of evergreens (native), I can only give with certainty the white pine. Two of 

 these — both planted fifty years ago — have reached, one a height of near seventy feet, the 

 other a little over sixty feet. One measures six feet six inches ; the other a little over 

 five feet, at four feet from the ground." 



" Mr. Beall, of Lindsay, has experimented with the black walnut. These trees, in 

 fourteen years Jrom the seed, have attained a growth of some eighteen to twenty-one 

 inches in circumference, are twenty feet high, and have borne nuts for five years." 



Mr. Caldwell, M.P.P., says ;— 



" Lombardy poplars twenty-two years old, measured by me, are from six feet to 

 eight feet four inches in cir;3umference." 



Mr. Beadle says : — 



" Some little blocks of forest have been planted with maple trees, with a view to 

 their sugar -producing qualities, and some of these have attained a diameter of six or 

 eight inches, and a height of thirty or forty feet. They have been planted some years. 

 I do not think they received any cultivation after planting." 



Mr. Roy, at Owen Sound, says : — • 



" Ten years ago I planted black walnut seeds, and at the present time two or three 

 of the trees bear nuts. They are not only ornamental, but coming to be very useful 

 trees. The diameter of two or three of them now will be as much as six inches." 



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Mr. Galusha says : — 



" A white willow which has grown from a small cutting put in thirteen years last 

 spring, now measures six feet two inches near the ground, forming a head on top thirty 

 feet across." 



Mr. Bucke, of Ottawa, says : — 



"There has been a good deal of talk before the Commission about growing trees from 

 the seed, but if I were going to plant trees, and particularly maples, I would go into the 

 woods and pull up seedlings a few inches high, as I am convinced they will succeed better 

 than by any planting of seeds. I planted a number in that way, and they are the best 

 lot of young trees I know of. I planted them in nursery rows, about six inches apart 

 in the row, and I have succeeded in raising a large number without losing any. I trim- 

 med the roots before planting." 



REPORT OF THE HON. H. J. JOLY. 



I promised my readers at the commencement of this work, that we should return to 

 the valuable report on the forests of Canada, issued by the Hon. H. J. Joly. We will 

 now notice what his opinion is concerning the rate of exhaustion of Canadian forests, 



