Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17
PLANTING TREE SEED
BY The EEDSPOT METHOD

seventy Years of S45l.i1. and at the End
of eighty years Of S315.:;0 IL must be
remembered i'm all these calculations that
the money invested is earning interest a
per cent, and that the net profits given
are earnings in excess of this :, per cent
interest.
Already this replantinS is amounting TO
a considerable acreage each year. Last
year, for instance. 2i,o0J acres Of forest
land were planted by the direct seeding
method. Aside from this. a.Wlo acres were
planted with nursery stock already de-
Neloped to such point as to make its
life assured. All this planting. however
Is as Yet in the experimental stage. and
the industry has not Yet been nut on "A
basis where it is making a very, direct
assault upon the barren portions of the
national forests 1t is ready. however. ~
make that assault. and each year from
now on there will be increasing areas
seeded down into trees that will make
the ideal forests of the future. Tho
oldest of the planted forests are just
now of such an age that they appear q
be landscape of Christmas trees of just
the size best adapted to the chimney
ners of the ninety millions.
one of the great advantages of this
replanting system w5eE applied IL ma
1onal forests is tie fact that il sunsti-
tutes always the best quality a: frees
wherever replanting is done. The result
will be that time passes the character
OF the forest and the predomlnarcc ~
superior qualities OF trees will he grad
ually increased.
One of the interesting features in this
connection will be the development %: GER
tain varieties of trees that are TODAY
threatened with extinction no less than
has been the buffalo and the els of the
western regions. There Is, for instance.
sequoia. the big tree of California. This
monster OF the vegetable world has come
down to the present from geological ages
when the vegetation of the earth was
rank beyond the conception of modern
times 1t is the only remnant of the So
geologic ages. II il the largest living
thing on earth and the Oldest living
thing. But few OF these monster trees
are today alive. They grow only on the
fertile slopes of the Sierras OF California.
From these monarchs of the forest world
the forest service is carefully gathering
seed for planting. Certain sections that
are peculiarly fitted for the growing OF
these trees will be planted with them.
and may the huge denizens OF the
forests of the past be coaXed back into
abundant growth in the future.
There is the black walnut. PROBABLY the
handsomest furniture wood in the world.
which has become almost extinct in
America. Yet the bottom lands of such
regions as portions of Arkansas furnish
ideal conditions for the growing of this
black walnut and are practically useless
for other purposes. Already the forest
service is gathering black walnut seed
and preparing to re-establish this val
liable wood in many regions. The cora
trees of the Mediterranean are being
planted in Florida, and the time may
come when the corks popped in American
cafes when Americans open their cham
payne will be a native product Like
wise Is the maritime pine of France,
from which naval stores are so largely
being established In the
loWlandS OF our Atlantic coast.
Copyright. 1911. by W. A. Du PuyD