Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-12

nlug down the rivers into the ocean
Arfesian wells will be used in many
places, thousands Of acres of forests vii
be planted that will not grow as rapid,
If irrigated, but after they are plane
and cultivated, the earth will absort
a great quantity of water that formerl,
ran off, the trees will shade the ground
which will gain both in moisture and
fertility. as they will draw nutriment
to an immense depth. while our for.
ests draw their nutriment from nearer
the surface. The Eastern farmer and
horticulturist at the best has only
seven Freight months in the year, and
from this must support bis family, re-
cure fuel and feed for his stock,
and aside from this, his land is de-
creasing in fertility or kept fertile at
great expense and labor, while yours
will be for a long time increasing in
fertility, if kept well cultivated and
worked deep. 1t will require more
experience than any of us has had to
decide which will be the most suitable
trees for forest planting. Many of the
most profitable for Eastern planting
would not succeed we'll here the soft
foliage of the white pine and the larch
would unfit them for this climate,
also the tendency to run their roots
near the surface of the ground would
be to their disadvantage. For desert
planting trees must be used that can
be grown cheaply from seeds, so as to
come within the means of the new
settlers. l would place eucalyptus
Globulus at the front, as have seen
it growing in what would seem almost
impossible places. 1t would make
fuel cheaper than any other tree that
could be grown on like lands. The
common locust, Robinia pseudacacia,
l have seen growing we'll in Western
Kansas and Nebraska, New Mexico,
Colorado, Utah, Nevada and at sew
eral places in this State, in every case
making good growth without irri-
CATION; and in all these cases 1 have
failed to find traces of borers, 80 fatal
to this tree in the Eastern States.
Would space permit, I might name
other trees l would deem as promis-
ing we'll; these two, however,
would furnish fuel and posts for the
new settlers and are grown very cheap
ly for seeds and transplant well. For
general forest planting, that are two
valuable trees that stand out in bold
relief. In their cases there can be
no mistake, for nature has succeeded
in growing them almost everywhere
between the eastern base of the
Rocky Mountains and the Pacific
coast, and man has used them more
generally than any other trees, over
the whole western half of the conti-
nent. Pinus ponderosa and Presidol-
suga Douglasii or Douglass spruce.
The former Pinus ponderosa ranges
all through the mountains, from
British Columbia, down into Mexico,
through Arizona, New Mexico and
western Texas, growing on dry
mountain sides through Colorado and
Montana. 1t forms over 80 per cent.
OF all the timber in in the Black
Hills of Dakota, reaches further out
on the plains than any other tree
in Colorado, and is the only western
coast tree that luns east into Neb-
raska.
Sargent says, "next to the Doug
lass Spruce it is the most generally
distributed and valuable tree
of the Pacific forests" The Doug
lass Spruce ranges through British
Columbia, Oregon, Washington Ter
ritory, all through the Sierra Nevada,
and the San Bernardino mountains,
Arizona, New Mexico and high, dry
ridges in Colorado; through Uintoh
and Wasatch mountains and
Wyoming and Montana Territories
Sargent says. 'It is called Yellow or
Red Fir by lumbermen, is more gem
orally distributed and said to be the
most valuable timber tree on the Pa
cific SLOPE"
This tree grows on high dry ridges
in Colorado, Arizona and Montana,
which proves it to be like ponderosa
suitable tree for planting on dry lands
like Ponderosa it is a rapid grower
and reaches to the largest size. These
two trees furnish nearly all the mer-
chantable lumber except Redwood,
from the coast to the eastern base of
the Rocky Mountains.
The SeQtoia iSemperriaats Redwood,
is valuable tree but only adapted
to certain locations. 1t has a very
circumscribed range, only reaching
from about the Western line of the
Jtate to the Southern boundry of
Monterey county and in a narrow
helt. Along the coast experiments
may prove that this valuable tree
will succeed from its present locality.
l noticed fine specimen on DR..
Cares grounds in Pasadena, eight
years planted and over thirty feet
high, also specimens on the capital
grounds at Sacramento much higher
Pinus insignis although its timber
is OF no great value may be named as
having very limited range-only
found in sandy spota single point
OH the coast yet we see it growing
we'll wherever planted. We may
hope from this fact others OF limited
range and more value, may have
their limits extended under proper
cultivation. ROBERT DOUGLASS.
The Value OF Arsenic as an Ad-
dittOn to the Kerosene Emul-
sion.
By PROF. G. V. RILEY.
In an address which 1 had the
honor to deliver at Riverside last
spring, in continuing the question of
washes, and more particularly the
kerosene emulsion, made the follow
log suggestion
Again. if permanency can be given
to the effect of a wash, so that the
few insects escaping the first applica-
ton, or which would hatch out there
after, would succumb, such addition
would be invaluable; and though the
arsenites are, as rule, effective
chiefly against mandibulate insects, or
those which masticate their food Gin
other words, although the action Of
these poisons is mainly through the
stomach), yet happen to know from
experience that they have also di-
rect effect by contact. Therefore l
recommend, with considerable conf
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