Sylviculture by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Forests and forestry
Publisher: [Philadelphia
Published: 1877-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

duced largely in Massachusetts, the Larch and Scotch Pine, besides Oalis, Ashes, Maples, Norway Spruce and Austrian and Corsican Pines. He recommends a protecting belt of trees to be planted on the northern side of every farm. The proper proportion of forest for Massachusetts he considers to be 25 per cent. Besides the woodlands in the State, there arc nearly two millions of acres of unimproved lands, 1,200,000 acres of which is admirably suited for forest growth, the value of the timber on which, in fifty years, could only be reckoned by hundreds of millions. True, this would devote half the State to Sylviculture ; yet, he thinks it would be its most profitable use, and be a benefit to that and other States.

Professor Sargent expresses his concern at the rapid destruction of timber in the United States, as sure to enhance its price, and produce many agricultural evils. He says, " Every year the destruction of the American forests threaten us with new dangers. Every year renders it more imperative to provide some measures to check the evils which our predecessors in their ignorance have left us as a legacy.»with which to begin the second century of our Republic."

The Professor calculates so large a timber profit to his State, besides other advantages as to make it a moral duty, and patriotic achievement, to engage in tree planting, and insists that railroad corporations must plant in their own interest.

If farmers would generally plant one side the highways, and a row or belt of sheltering trees on the north side of their farms, and they and the Governments should see that all untillable grounds should be kept in the growth of timber as far as practicable, exempt from plunder and fires, we should attain that proportion of trees over the whole country which is re-ciuired by the best interests of agriculture and the general good of the people. This should be the aim of all.

In Pennsylvania we have begun no considerable tree planting, except it be that in Fairmount Park. There, besides previous plantings, the Commissioners have planted within eighteen months, 12,083 trees, of the value of $14,490 ; and have yet in the Nursery 33,;j04 trees.

From the reserved moiety of the Michaux income, the American Philosophical Society has established in the Park the course of Lectures delivered by Dr. Rothrock on Arboriculture and Botanj^, who dwells emphatically upon the importance of woods for the preservation of water and soil and in protection of agricultur.'.

Citizens of Pennsylvania have, however, commenced an important Sylviculture in Eastern Virginia. Landreth & Co., of Philadelphia, have for six years and a half been planting oOO acres of black walnuts, and in a few years will complete some thousand acres in hard wood nut bearing trees. Mr. Burnet Landreth, a member of the firm, without fear of inciting rivalry, and without any apprehension that the growing market for timber can be overstocked, has published their doings in the Journal of Forestry, published in London. He seems actuated by the spirit of patriotism more than the love of profit.

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