The Basswood Tree

Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultura! College, writes is follows: Why pluut miples and locusts; trees that ure so susceptible to injury? Tlie cl ui la as beaiitiful, f uil is vigorous & jrrower, and alinost free trom nttack by borers among us. Yet there is an obiction to the elm. The canker worm, anisopteryx vernata, and the elm leal beetle, galénica xmthoraelana, which are often so deslructlve to the foliage of rhe elm, should make U8 hesitate against too exclusive setting of ttiis most graceful tree. The elm leaf beetle ia not yet in Michigan, but it is tn New York, nnd only ueeils time to reach us Wlien it comes we must either llght it at great 1 ibor and expense or else give up our elms. Why not the linden or basswood ? Our American limlen or basswood is a tree of rare be iut3r, and a more vigorous and rapld rower th-in either maple or elm. it is attaeked vi-ry rarely by inseets, and so far as I have observed I should say 10 tranp1anted basswoods live nnd thrive to one maple. Last but not least, the linden is a very valunble hnney tree, as the honey trom busswood is usually very plenteous and of most excellent quality, as we should expect from the de41clnus fragrance ofthe beautiful tlowers. When we plr.t a linden, then, we are ftdornlng our street or grbnndi with i tree that uill v ry likcly live and thrive, a tree Ui it u -üf surprise H8 with its rapid growth and ikvelopment, and a tree that will blesa thé coming generaüou with the valuahlu product which it so bountifully i. I is. I belii've thiTc is no native denldUOUS tree thiit ofleW sui'h induccinents for transplantinir, ns does the American üihIcii. l.'nlosa wc oonclude then to plant linden excluslvely, and sucii a cnuru bas much to ri-commend it, I shotil'l say plant uil our beantitul trees - linden, maple, clin, oak, tulip, chestnut, ash, willow aml even poplar - tlicn, as with the man wlio practlces mixed husbandry, and like the m:iid who divides her Pjtjpi amongseveral nasketü, we shali be altnost sure to wlu al a ime poltit, and not to lose in all. It is tliouglit that trees of one kind when planted Ifi a single or doulilu Straight ruw look the best, then I say plnnt linden. lf we plant irrcgularly. und pay me heeil to Rrouplng, which 1 I; -ive done, we e in then plant all UilnU of trees with excellent effect. Wfe it. not for tlie inconvenience of tliis style of planting, when we come to use our mtori cm thf frrafs alonjr the WHysidc, I shóuld (crtuiiily advise this lrrej;nhir planting and itroirplnr. Owlng to the eiihanced beanty, I prefer it even with the Inconrenleiiee thrown in. To conclllde, I say then, either plant liinlcns or else all our dcsirable native xpeclet. If we must set fflirplri tben practlcf great care that we may resist the borers and snve nor trees.