Mr. C. B. Paddock, Albany, Illinois, notes: "On page 19, January number, 'Forest trees for Kansas,' the writer shows how hard maple grows in the West. A number of years ago I wrote you a note of experience with them, which agreed with what the writer of the article alluded to says; so will say further, my trees which were grown from seed by myself, and are now thirteen years old, are from ten to twelve feet in height and the tree from which the seed was gathered, though only about ten inches through at the base and thirty feet or less in height, has not increased noticeably in size to my knowledge in seventeen years".