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FOREST TIMBER. 
reticulata, and striatifolia, or the mules raised from them, will flower 
much better by remaining in the pots all the year, as does also A. 
aulica, calyptrata, solandraeflora,” these should all be kept dry during 
their dormant state, or they will not flower, whilst “ A. reginae cro- 
cata, rutila, acuminata, fulgida, Johnsoni, psittacing, and the mules 
between those, are much better turned out.” 
Arthur. 
(To be Continued in our next. 
ARBORICULTURE. 
ARTICLE XL—NOTICES OF FOREST TIMBER. 
BY AN ARBORIST. 
Continued from Page 645. 
The Mahor or wild cotton tree grows in Cuba to a vast size : there is 
one on an estate called Santa Anna 100 feet high. Its trunk which 
is forty-four and a half feet in circumference at the base, rises to 65 feet 
without a branch or a single knot on its white bark. The branches 
are worthy of the stem and cover a diameter of 165 feet. This im¬ 
mense tree is in itself a world, and shelters and feeds millions of in¬ 
sects ; several parasitical plants attach themselves to it: wild pine 
apples grow at the top, and the vine vegetates on its boughs, and 
letting its branches droop to the earth, furnishes a ladder for rats, 
mice, and opossums, which would find it difficult to climb up a smooth 
bark, and enable them to reach the pine cups, which form so many 
natural reservoirs for the rain water. The wood-louse founds exten¬ 
sive republics in this tree, and establishes its large and black cities at 
the juncture of some of the branches, from whence it descends to the 
ground by a covered way, of which it provides two, one to ascend 
and the other to descend. This little insect is of the size of a flea, 
is inoffensive, and a great treat to the inhabitants of the poultry - 
yard when given to them in the nest altogether. 
No plant is better adapted for underwood than the Yew; it will 
thrive under the drip of other trees equally with the Holly; they 
are often increased by cuttings and sometimes by layers. Cuttings 
of the young wood strike freely: when rooted, they should be trans¬ 
planted into nursery-beds, or lines to attain sufficient size, age, and 
strength, for final planting out. 
AN ARBORIST. 
To be Continued. 
