PLANTING PLAN FOR A DEMONSTRATION AREA. 19 



Diagram 2. — Micoti^e for rich bottomlands in the Lowlands Belt. 

 ( Spacing, 8' by 6'. i 



P W P w 



W P W P 



P W P w 



W P W P 



P=pecan. W=black walnut. 



REQUIRED NUMBER OF TREES PER ACRE. 



Pecan 454 



Black walnut 454 



Total— 908 



PLANTING PLAN FOR A DEMONSTRATION AREA IN THE 

 LOWLANDS BELT. 



This plan was prepared for the campus of Henry Kendall College, 

 Muskogee, Ind. T. The purpose of the planting was to furnish 

 shade and protection from hot winds, to provide instruction for the 

 students of the college, and to adorn the grounds. The general plan 

 of the college grounds, comprising a tract 1,060 feet square in the 

 suburbs of the city of Muskogee, had been made prior to the prep- 

 aration of this planting plan, and with it the Forest Service had 

 nothing to do. Any distinctly ornamental planting should be 

 planned by a landscape gardener, since work of this kind does not 

 come within the province of forestry. But because this plan gives 

 a ke}^ to what kinds of trees may be successfully grown in this region 

 it has been deemed advisable to publish it. 



That part of the Indian Territory about Muskogee is underlaid 

 with alternating sandstones, shales, and coal measures. The rocks 

 are soft, and, disintegrating very rapidly under the action of the 

 weather, cause all inequalities of surface to become rounded off into 

 wave-like swells. As a result of these conditions the surface is fur- 

 nished with a deep, porous, chocolate-colored, loamy soil of great 

 fertility. Here and there on the swells of the prairie the remnants 

 of the disintegrating sandstones crop out and render a small part of 

 the land unfit for cultivation until after it has been cleared of stones. 

 Such an outcrop occurs on the campus of Henry Kendall College. 

 It is not a hindrance to forest growth, but favorable to it. 



