. 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. TREES TREES 1841 must often have quick-growing trees whicli soou pro- duce fuel, but wliich have Utile, if any, value for other purposes. In the eastern part of the Plains the bhick willow, almond willow, common cotton wood, silver maple, and box elder are useful trees for this purpose. We should not condemn th
. 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. TREES TREES 1841 must often have quick-growing trees whicli soou pro- duce fuel, but wliich have Utile, if any, value for other purposes. In the eastern part of the Plains the bhick willow, almond willow, common cotton wood, silver maple, and box elder are useful trees for this purpose. We should not condemn the use of these easily grown soft-wooded trees. A forest is a crop, and there is no reason why a farmer may not plant a more quickly growing crop if he wishes, hut he should at the same time plant the more enduring kinds given in the preced- ing lists. On the central Plains the quickly-grown trees may include the same willows and cottonwood and also the box elder. The silver maple will not do well in the greater part of this central region. On the western Plains the list is essentially the same as for the ceutral portion: namely, the willows, cottonwood, and the box elder, to which may be added, here and there, one or more of the western species of cottonwood. Now for the horticultural point of view. About the country homes the first trees are usually cottonwood, silver maple and box elder, followed later by green ash and white elm. Very commonly the red cedar is planted with the first mentioned species, and often Scotch and Austrian pines are soon added. It must be remembered that the settler's house on the Plains stands in the open instead of being hemmed in by forest trees, as in the eastern portions of the American continent. The settler's problem is to surround his house with trees, not to clear the trees away. In towns and cities the cottonwood, silver maple and box elder are generally the pioneer trees, since they produce a shade sooner than any others, and later these ar
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