Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-26

REPUBLICAN NoMINATIoNs.-Iu the second
Plymouth senatorial district Mr. Lloyd Parsons
of Bridgewater, IN the third Bristol district,
Hon. Charles P. Shckney Of Fall River, in the
Hampshire and Berkshire district, Mr.. i. II.
Brewster of Worthington, in the fifth Essex dis
trct, Mr.. Newell Giles of Rockport have been
nominated.
TILToN's JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE has
been received for the present month, and is fully
up to its usual standard Of excellence. The il.
Illustrations of new things alone are worth more
than the subscription price TO any one interested
in horticulture, Indeed, we do not sec how any
live hOrticulturist can do without it, There is a
short article in this number of the Journal,
on an important branch of internal improve
ment at the west, which is the planting of trees
for timber and shade, upon those vast grassy
plains constituting such a considerable portion
Of that almost boundless section of the country.
Recent events, however, have demonstrated
the necessity of some widely different system of
| lmprovements-ifi in any way it be practicable
| which would consist of extensive fre-proof bar
| riers against the spread of desolatin9 conhagra
tons to which even the open country, in many
parts of the west, is fcarlully exposed. Such
| barriers, if the ingenuity of man could contrive
| to render them effectual, would be worth more
than the cost of their construction, even if they
should assume proportions that would entitle
them to rank with the Chinese Wall or the Suez
| CANAL
But to return to the treeleSs prairies: Mr.. Suel
| Foster, writing in the present (Octo.) number
of Tilton's Journal, describes the nurseries of R.
Douglas & Sons, in Illinois, who raise annually
millions of evergreen trees for timber-planting,
| &c. Mr.. Foster says
"At the meeting of the Iowa Eastern Horti-
| cultural Society at Iowa City, June - and 3d.
| 1870, while we had the subject of tree-planting
| before us, Mr.. Douglas was asked TO tell us how
| many evergreens and European larch he had
He estimated those two or three years old trans
| planted, at 900 000 those not transplauted in
the Seed-bed, one and two years old at 20 600 0O0
| Those who know Mr.. Douglass know that he
| would rather underestimate than over-estimate.
| 50 we see that, however progressive Tilton's
| journal may be in this instance it is hardly I'M
| with some of oar go-ahead western men. am
| happy to be abe to state this item-this extern
| slyc propagation of these cvergreens and Euro
pean larch, than which there are no varieties of
| trees so valuable for beauty, wind-breaks, tim
| Der, and climatic influence. The time is cOminu
when it will be considered bad economy to de
pend on natural growth of trees Tor wood and
timber. How beautiful to contemplate this rich,
undulating country, each farm with its belts OF
timber and groves, planted to suit its conve-
nence and comfort! II is a vast work, but it is
only the pleasure of holiday time compared
with the laborious task of clearing up a farm in
the forest. would rather plant and raise an
acre of timber than clear one Off"
The editor of the Journal adds, from his per.
sonal inspection of these nurseries,
"When we see bed four feet wide and hun.
dreds of feet long, as thic&ly filled with young
seedlings OF the Austrian or some other pine as
a lawn is with spears of grass, and bed after bed
equally thick, we can only estimate them by my
iiads. Among the most Interesting parts of the
establishment are the houses for storing the
| young plants through the winter, thus affording
the opportunity of sorting and preparing them
lorhling orders, for this purpose thousands upon
thousands of arbor yitB5, white pines, Austrian
pines, Norway spruceS, European Iarches, and
the beautiful Lawson'S cypress, being piled IN as
regularly and neatly as the books in a library
We are glad to know that these seedlings meet
with ready sale, and we wish that ten nurseries
of the same capacity were in operation, and ali
finding demand Tor their plants. There is room
and need for ALL"