The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18
For the Centennial.
The Forests Of Mi0higan-Large
and Rare Trees.

NithOut ElVuA ioi thC Nuiiuty, ,
amount, and excellent quality Of
her timber. The State Board Of
Agriculture, in connection with the
State Centennial Board, have au-
thorixed me to collect samples Of
timber to exhibit at the coming
worlds fair. For this purpose /
have travelled considerably, and for
several months have been collect
ing specimens, and getting all the
information possible in regard to
the subject. But Michigan is too
large a State to see in few weeks.
! am not yet satisfied in many re-
spects with my knowledge of this
subject.
1t is desirable to make the col
lection as complete as possible
credit to the State in every way.
1t is a public enterprise in which
every good citizen of the State
should feel deep interest. We
are preparing to show each species
of wood in cross and oblique sec
tons and by samples ofsmall boards,
showing the great diversity and ex-
cellence of each kind. The sam
pies may be II by 20 inches, and
one inch thick, and nicely polished,
Of species, we shall probably col
lect about 100 trees and so or more
shrubs.
1t will be desirable also to ex-
hibit some large samples, remarka-
bic for. their length, diameter, OF
extra quality. Some members OF
the Centennial Board are taking
this in hand.
The object in sending this com
munication to all parts of the State
is to solicit some additional sam
pies, if any are reported; to get as
many answers as possible to the
questions here asked, that a full
and accurate report may be made
of the various products of the for
ests, their size, kinds, and distri'
button. The report when complet-
ed will be given to all State papers
for publication, if desired.
Does the reader know whether eli
ther of the following grows wild in
Michigan? and if so, where?-Cu'
cumber tree, white cedar This is
not the common arbor vitae mostl,
called white CEDAR, Hercules club
white spruce, persimmon, ant
mountain maple.
The chestnut grows in Oakland
and Wayne counties; honey locus
near Adrian, red-bud of Judas tree
in western Lenawce county, Ohio
buckeye in western Lenawce coun
ty. Can you add any other local
tiles!
Give locality ana diameter of DO:
elder, also called ash-leaved maple
honey maple, coffee tree, red mul
berry, shell-bark hickory, whicl
bears nuts Of yellowish color, vcr.
large and thick shell.
Give northern limit and larges
samples known of any or all the fol
lowing: wildwood or tulip-trcc
pawpaw, Kentucky coffee tree, wil'
plum, hawthorn if over 10 inches
crab-apple, pcpperidge, blue ash
sassafras, if over one foot, slipper.
elm, mulberry, buttonwood or syc
amore, black walnut, butternut
shell-bark hickory, bittcrnut, pig
nut, white oak, burr oak, swami
white oak, chestnut oak, laurel o.
single oak, scarlet oak, black oak
red oak, irOn-wOod, blue beach, all,
species of willow over one foot, an,
species of poplar or COTTONWOOD,
over two feet, and tamarack.
Name any place and size of an.
very large Eastwood, prickly ash
grape vine, Virginia crecper, bit
tcr-swcet, black cherry, red cherry
service berry, witch hazel ,dog-wood
elder, white ash, black ash, Ameri
can elm, rock elm, blackberry, mul
berry over six inches, beech, blu
beech, and any locality ofred cedar
Southern limit and extra size o
height in any place, of white pine
red or Norway pine, scrub pine
yellow pine, either species of aide
or birch, black spruce, mountai
ash, hcmlock spruce, balsam fir, Al
Dor vitae.
| Can you tell where large O
good-sizcd sound tree can be had {
cultivated apple, pear, peach, plum
ounce, cherry, catalpa, ailanthlr
locust, silvcr-leavcd or Lombard
poplar, fringe tree, Norway spruce
orse-chestnut, rose-bush, larg
currant-bush, SNOWFALL, trumpt
erccpcr, lilac, cultivated mulberr,
fig, Usage orange; any foreign oaks
clms, weeping willow, maplc
birches, willows, poplars, pine
spruccs, ccdars, European larcl
jumpers, maiden-hair tree, bal
cypress, or any other cultivated tire
or shrub?
State any interesting fact in re
gard to any curiosity as to siz
form, or monstrosity of any tree {
shrub you know in the State.
BY giving immediate attention
any or all of the foregoing ques
tons you will be doing a great ia
vor, and thus aid an enterprise
: which all should feel an intcrcs
Reply to Prof. W. J. BEAL,
Agricul. College, Lansing, Mic
RI HOLDEN, Of the Farwell Registe
still hugs the delusive idea tn