128 BL'LLETIN OF WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. VOL. 1, NO. 2. 
Submitted to the State Legislature by the commissioners ap- 
pointed for this purpose, 1867. 
Pammel, L. H. 
Forest X'eg-etation of the Upper Mississippi, 
(jarden and Forest, T\'., pp. 461 ct seqii. 1891. 
PUTxNAM, H. C. 
Report on the Forests of W isconsin with J?articular Re.^ard 
to the Lumber Industry. 
In Sargent's Report on the I^^orests of the L'nited States, Xtli 
Census, Xo\. 13. pp. 554-558. 
Roth, F^iliijkrt. 
On the Forestry Conditions of Northern W isconsin. W'is- 
consin Geology and Natural History Survey. lUdletin No. i, 
Economic Series No. i. Madison, 1898, Map, p. 78. 
There are two editions of this work published by the state. 
One, on large heavy paper, distributed by the Geological Survey. 
The other in cheaper form, for the State Forestry Commission. 
See also next entry. 
RoTII, FlLir.KKT. 
I'^orestry Conditions and Interests of Wisconsin. With a 
discussion of objects and methods of ascertaining forest statistics, 
etc., by B. E. F>rnow, Chief of Division of h'orestry. lUilletin 
16, V. S. Division of h^orestry, 1898. Map, p. 76. 
This is substantially the same work as the j)receding, but does 
not contain the accounts of conditions in individual counties. 
W^VRDKR, John A. 
F^orests and k^orestry in W'isconsin. 
Transactions W' isconsin State Horticultural Societv, 1880- 
1881. 
Notes on Sylva of Milwaukee County. l>v Ernicst 
l)R('NCKii:x. Idle hop hornbeam fOstrya Virgiiiica ) , a very com- 
mon tree in this locality, seldom has a larger diameter than eight 
inches, although it is stated that in the lower Mississippi region, 
where it seems to have its best development, stems of twenty 
inches and more are not uncommon. The largest tree of this 
species in our vicinity, which I know of, stands on the steep 
northern slope of the Menomonee \ alley, near the abandoned 
quarry opposite Castalia Park. It is about twenty-five feet high, 
has eleven inches diameter at breast-height ; the spread of its 
crown about equals its height, and the lowest branch is eight feet 
above the ground. It is a very vigorous tree, and last autumn 
bore a heav}- load of seed. 1diis tree, standing free and showing 
