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Show V Public Reminded Of Trees Available A list of tree species that will be available from the Clarke-Mc-Nary nursery at Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college during the spring of 1945 and a description of their various qualities, was presented Monday by J. Whitney Floyd, Utah extension forester. Professor Floyd advised Utah farmers to order trees early this year and announced that blanks will be available immediately at the extension service or at county agents' offices throughout the state. Orders will be filled according ac-cording to the date of their receipt. re-ceipt. Species are: Softwood Eastern red cedar, medium size, valuable for windbreaks tond shelterbelts; grown well on gravely or loam soils of low moisture content, durable for fence posts; Rocky Mountain juniper, small native tree, valuable for windbreaks and shelterbelts; Ponderosa pine, grows well on low moisture Son-tent, Son-tent, nonalkali soils below 6000 feet elevation, produces valuable sawtimber; blue spruce, excellent windbreak in moist, irrigated lands, hardy below fiOOO-foot elevation. ele-vation. Hardwood Green ash, a good woodlot tree when planted as single trees for timber production, attains 40-60-foot heights, very durable; Siberian elm, rapid growing, grow-ing, drouth resistant, disease free tree specially adapted for windbreaks wind-breaks and shelterbelts, will grow on poor soil up to 6000-foot elevation, eleva-tion, recommended for adverse sites where success of other species ii doubtful. Black locusts, rapid growing in irrigated soils and producing heavy hardwood suited for many farm uses, should be planted below 5000 elevation; honey locust, recommended recom-mended for woodlots and windbreaks wind-breaks up to 6000-foot elevation; 'Russian olive, invaluable as a ; hedge tree or in the outside row of windbreak, grows in dry, wet, j alkaline or poor quality soils, j Ela.-k walnut, requires deep, j well-drained soil, free of alkali, j cannot be grown above 4 5 00-foot , elevation, recommended for wood-j wood-j lots; golden willow, recommended , for windbreaks and shelterbelts on I irrigated or swampy lands and for planting alorg stream banks to i prevent erosion; Lombardy poplar, tall tree valuable for windbreaks, especially along stream banks. j |