Abstract

Ornamental Trees for Massachusetts Plantations

This article presents information on the research paper "Ornamental Trees for Massachusetts Plantations," a paper read last winter before the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, by John Robinson, of the Arnold Arboretum, and now reprinted from the Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Secretary of that body. Robinson's remarks, although specially intended to treat of Massachusetts plantations, will equally apply to all the Northern and Middle States. He very properly takes the ground that, except in exceptional cases, the species native to any locality are better adapted to reach maturity and produce satisfactory results in that locality than any exotic species can be. But the enthusiastic planter will hardly be satisfied with native or neighboring trees alone. One of the never-failing delights in agriculture consists in watching the development of little-known or strange forms of tree life.