Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-03-14
WHAT TREES MUST DE GROWN ON THE

NaIue Vi tue lrutl OF tlulUer, anu Will
select accordingly. On these apples,
pears, peaches, plums, ounces and
grapes, which thrive in New Mexico
as they thrive in few other countries,
will flourish and produce their abun-
dant crops. On these same grounds
will grow the walnut, butternut and
hickory, the varieties OF the white
ash, and the tulip tree, al Of which
will ever lead the list for timber,
and the elms, silver and ash
naples and mulberry for their rapid
growth will always rank high for
fuel. The English walnut and pecan
will also grow probably as far nor:h
as the Platte river. Notwithstand
ing the rapid growth OF most Of the
poplars, their poor quality of wood
for timber or fuel, their propensity
to send up shoots from the roots,
and their scattering seeds over a
large extent of country, and their
filling the plowed lands with young
trees, render them an undesirable
tree for growing anywhere, even
though the objection to their scatter
ing seeds may be avoided by grow
ing only those which have stami-
nate flowers.
HOW PLANTATIONS MAY BE INCREASED.
Alter the trees have been estab
lished few years, irrigation may be
dispensed with; or, at most, watering
once year will suffice, it the suface
be stirred and muiched so thorough
~ as to catch and hold all the waters
that tall, till they can percolate into
the ground. The banks raised TO IA
cili,a,e irrigation can be kept up,
and thus prevent the water from
flowing off. The streams which have
been rearing the trees TIL they have
become established, may then be
turned to u.e in extending the plan.
tations. AS the trees will do well
after the first year with a watering
once in thirty days, and after the
third year twice during the summer,
small supply of water may be SO
economical as to produce large
plantation of trees.
TREES ARE DESIRABLE ON TIE IllGu
GROUNDS,
where water for irrigation cannot be
procured. For such situations an.
other class of trees is needed. Here
nature must guide the planter. Ii
places east of the Goth meridian,
there is in most places a good supply
OF moisture IN the spring and winter,
so tina, most Of their waters find their
way into the soil and suhsoiI; the
rains OF summer are also received in
to the earth; thus the roots of trees
are abundantly supplied with their
needed moisture, without which those
trees with which eastern people are
acquainted, Will not survive. These
last trees transplanted to these dry
lands, will die for want OF their sup
ply of water before they can become
established, whether taken from the
woods, the nurseries, or planted rs
seeds. Happily even In this,
THE DIFFICULTY IS NOT iSsURMoUSTADLE
One crossing the plains, as used &c
be done III former times with the
slow conveyances, and thus enabled
TO view every inch ct .tlf. WAITS vii,
the 100th meridian, white eims, wal
nnts, hickory, white ash and box-el-
der; but leaving these he will trav.
erse treelcss plains for hundreds oil
miles, till he is surprised t, find, not
in the valleys Of streams, or near the
channel OF summer torrents, but on
the brow CT a hill, or along the sides
of rocky mesa, jumpers and pines
of varieties with which he is unac-
qainted,. trees which have spread out
from the mountains beyond. From
these varieties tho most beautiful of
the cone-bearing tribes.
PINES, cEDAEs, spRUcEs AND FRS
of the Ii, ountain seeds may be pro.
cured, which will spring up and
flourish under the hot suns, dry and
parching atmosphere OF summer, and
the effects OF the cold winds of win.
ter. Ii we find trees that survive on
the rocky side Of Rabbit-car, the ba-
saltic terraces at Eagle spring, or
Rio de Burro, on the sides of the
canyons OF abe Canadian or Purga-
toire, at the head Of the Smoky Hill
and Republican, ii is safe to conclude
that the same trees will survive as far
east as the Goth meridian or to the
Missouri, on the dryest ridges. Trees
thus growing seem designed by the
Creator to fill these plains with for
ests and groves, when man shall en-
ploy the means at his command to
propagate and grow them. Their
roots, unlike the evergreen of the
Eastern States or Europe, penetrate
downwards, and seek a supply Of
moisture far below tic surface, while
their foliage and small spray break
ur the winds, and hold fhe leaves in
place, and retain the soil even after
it has been broken by the pillow and
n,ellowed by the subsoiler to receive
viz V0ONto " thCti l1It OIII ttiC CIOu0S.
These trees may fit these high, dry
lands for the growth OF other trees;
at the same time, these evergreers.
so admirably adapted to this climate,
are in no respect inferior, for beauty
OF form or value of timber, to their
relatives in moister chimes.
SELECTIONS FROM TREES INDIGENOUS TO
THESE PLAINS
are sure to succeed; selections from
other regions, Of trees not acclimated.
will prove an experiment, more like.
ly to fail than to succeed; at least.
the chances are largely against them.
With selections from the indigenous
ond congcnial varieties, the question
with which this paper commenced
must be answered. that they (thc
plains) will not be treelc IS; bat with
selections from foreign and unconce.
NAL varieties, which are sure to per.
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