Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1859 — The Ailanthas. [ARTICLE]

The Ailanthas.

The Philadelphia Bulletin e.vs of themuch- bused Ailantbus: “The Ailantbus grows with such c-trs-ordinarv rapidity that it is safe to say th :t it gives more wood in ope ‘ourth o; the time than any tre*- gene aity n.-ed tor > U e|. And though it grows soquiekly. it s firm, b .»d. strong and durable wood.'nearly as valuable as locust, and m king excellent fuel. As lor soil and culture, it grows in the most desolate sands to N'-w Jersey like a voutig bay tree—a single wheeJbarrow-;oad o< lonii to each tree being all the capital which it requires to resist the most untoward influences. It endures heat and cold, it will grow where a blackberry vine would think twice before it would sprout once, and is never touched by insects. How many of our readers own thousands of acres, now worthless! Let them plant ailantbus, which grows from the seed, and wait only ten years ” "