. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1840 TREES It eventually merges into the great body of forest trees lying on the easterly side of the Mississippi valley. The principal trees which have come upon the Plains by this route are the common red cedar, papaw, half a dozen willows, one Cottonwood, basswood, two or three elms, hackberry, mulberry, thr
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1840 TREES It eventually merges into the great body of forest trees lying on the easterly side of the Mississippi valley. The principal trees which have come upon the Plains by this route are the common red cedar, papaw, half a dozen willows, one Cottonwood, basswood, two or three elms, hackberry, mulberry, three ashes, wild apple, four species of hawthorns, Juneberry, wild cherry, choke cherry, wild plum, coffee bean, lioney locust, red- bud, sycamore, two species of buckthorns, buckeye, one maple, box-elder, sumach, two species of walnuts, five or six hickories, nine or ten oaks, ironwood, blue beech, and one birch. But ten species of trees have come from the Rocky Mountain forests, and these have made much less impression upon the forests of the Plains than those which came from the eastern forests. In this list are the bull-pine, the western red cedar, four species of cottonwoods, the buffalo berry, a maple, and two birches. Although the present forest area of the Plains is not relatively great, it is large enough to be seriously con sidered in regard to its preservation. There is danger that with the habits acquired by our people in the thickly wooded portions of the United States of cutting down forest trees wherever fountl, much of this small forest area will be destroyed. It is much easier to preserve an area of forest land than to create it anew. First, all forest fire; must be kept down. Where a mass of woodland adjoins the open prairie, fire - guards should be made so that the fires will not sweep into the forest growth. The greatest d e stroyer of the forests of the Plains in the past has been fire, as it swept over the prairies into wood land. Second, it is ah solutely n
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