Show GIANT THUYA GAINING FAVOR found easier to grow and transplant than any other conifer likes any soil dy W H GILBERT the giant abuya is rapidly malting its way in the good opinions of those interested in conifers it is found easier to raise and easier to trans plant than any other conifer it will grow in almost any soil even in damp cold bottoms and on poor dry oolite and seems equally indifferent to wind damp and spring frosts there la no reason why this tree should not ba sold in nurseries at the price ot spruce unless it is the absence of a regular demand for it can be got to the proper size tor planting in two years less time the tree seeds itself in sandy soli in a visit to england a few years igo I 1 saw a plantation of thuya and larch planted in poor clay over chalk and the thuya had completely out stepped the larch another instance A beautiful specimen in a twenty tour year old plantation 0 thua douglas fir and larch on tartly good soil the thuya had grown wo feet per annum and pretty well held its ow n with the douglas though on a steep hill about feet in altitude it was being suppressed here then is a rival to the douglas in rapid growth and the lumber Is acclaimed as to that of the best larch and pret rabla to larch tor planking and fencing so apparently decided on rivaling tue douglas in further the adaptability of the tree to solla and its power of resisting cold and storms are greater than those of the douglas |