THE SOUTHERN CYPRESS. 67 
seed collected farther south. Experiments seem to show that seed 
from the slow-growing ‘‘pond”’ form of cypress will produce inferior 
stock to that grown from seed from thrifty trees favorably situated. 
Because the poorer seed is much more accessible, it is apt to find its 
way freely to the market. No point of difference is known by which 
to distinguish seed from the two or more botanical forms. 
PLANTING. 
Practically all experience points to the general hardiness and adapt- 
ability of cypress for planting in forest stands. The best time for 
planting appears to be during late fall or early winter, so that the 
seedlings can become established during the subsequent period of low 
water. Planting in the spring should be done just before the buds 
begin to swell. Although leafless in winter, ike the hardwoods, 
cypress requires care in handling in keeping the roots always moist 
and the fine rootlets as intact as possible; in this respect, cypress 
appears intermediate between the hardwoods and ordinary conifers. 
Seedlings are best transplanted at the end of the first or second 
year; the older and larger stock will be found preferable for tracts 
mundated for periods of considerable duration. One-year stock will 
likely be found satisfactory in ordinary situations. Cypress seed- 
lings are semiaquatic and will grow standing in shallow water. 
Since the foliage is browsed, protection against grazing animals 
when closely confined is necessary in order to avoid injury to 
plantations. 
Because of the small amount of-cypress that has been planted, evi- 
dence based upon measurements can not be furnished to show the 
financial results to be expected. Hence it is impossible at this time 
to offer any definite recommendations in regard to the advisability of 
planting cypress on a commercial scale.t| Material of the sort needed 
to form a basis for such recommendations will become available 
with the further development of young planted stands, and celts 
experience in methods of planting. 
The central Mississippi, Ohio Valley, and middle Atlantic coast 
regions offer promise of being well adapted to commercial planting. 
As with all species of trees, the profitableness depends essentially 
upon various local conditions after all questions of growth and gen- 
eral adaptability of the species from a silvicultural standpoint have 
been settled. Planted cottonwood, for example, has proved to be 
profitable on some of the heavy, less valuable bottoms of the central 
Mississippi Valley.? Unless treated, however, its wood is very short 
lived in contact with the soil, while the heartwood of cypress is very 
durable, and therefore well fitted in this respect for such uses as posts, 
1 Ohio is taking the lead above all others in planting cypress. Address the State Forester, Wooster, 
Ohio. 
* Bull. 24, U. S. Dept. of Agr., “Cottonwood in the Mississippi Valley.” 
