Identifier: meehansmonthlyma91899phil (find matches)
Title: Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Philadelphia : Thomas Meehan & Sons
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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hetree. The public feeling for its preservationw^as so strong that this part of the programmepromised success. But the care of the tree forall time, subsequently, was a problem thatcould not be solved, and the grand old j^ewhad to be left to its fate. Surface Water .\nd Springs.—Please ac-cept my thanks for the publication of yourtruthful contention, that the roots of trees takeup a great amount of water and make the than when the ground is moist ? Provided therainfall is the same, will not more water beused up bj the plant growth in a highl^^ culti-vated river valley than there would be if thevalley produced less plant growth ? If theentire valley of the INIississippi j-early pro-duced double its present annual amount ofplant growth, would the river discharge itspresent amount of water ? I think increasedcrops may diminish streams, unless they in-creased the rainfall, and I think the atmos-phere is so vast, and moves so rapidly, that itwould require a great increase of plant growth
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THE OLD YEW TR£E IN GERMANTOWN. soil under them dr)-. The same is true ofall growing land plants. I suppose trees withneedle-shaped leaves take up much less waterthan trees with broad leaves, and that thefaster a tree grows the more water it takesfrom the ground. I think the ground uponwhich a thrift)^ forest is growing (in June, Jul)and August), will be drier than it would bewere it ntide. So you and I think alike uponthe above points. Do not deciduous trees,when forming their leaves in the spring, usemore water than in midsummer ? Do not treesduiing summer droughts use much less water in a vast vallej- to increase the rainfall per-ceptibly. Our White Mountain region, whichis one source of the INIerrimac River, waschiefl) covered with forests. Millions of dol-lars were invested in manufacturing establish-ments upon this river. No investor in theseestablishments said a word about having theWhite Mountain forests preserved. Somethirty-three 3ears ago, the Governor proposedthe selling

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