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was nine years old, there was a certain piece of land in New 

 Hampshire without a living tree on it. When I was fifty 

 years old, forty-one years afterwards, there were pine-trees 

 growing there which would make a cord and a half of wood 

 at least, and were fifty or sixty feet high, which had grown 

 in forty-one years. 



Question. Is not one reason why a great many ever- 

 greens die, because they get frozen ? 



Mr. Manning. Yes. If trees are frozen out of the 

 ground, and then thawed, it is very fatal. 



Question. I would like to inquire, in regard to Norway 

 maples, whether they are not much preferable to other 

 maples for transplanting? 



Mr. Manning. Well, they are usually thicker than 

 rock-maples, and they make a very rapid growth. I think 

 they do well in a rich, alluvial soil. The European syca- 

 more-maple is a good tree near the seashore, but not so 

 successful in the interior. All poplars grow near the sea- 

 shore : they grow down near tide-water. There is nothing 

 better, that I know of, for a hedge, than the American arbor- 

 vitse. The Norway spruce makes a good hedge, as all 

 spruces do. The white pine can be trimmed into a hedge. 



The Chairman. A desire has been expressed to hear 

 from Mr. Hadwen. 



Mr. O. B. Hadwen (of Worcester). After the paper 

 which has been read, and the lengthy discussion which has 

 followed, I think the ground has been pretty well gone over 

 in relation to trees and tree-planting ; but, something having 

 been said in regard to the Norway maple, I will say a word 

 or two upon that subject. One great advantage of the 

 Norway maple is, that you succeed with that where with 

 other maples you would fail. For instance : if you have a 

 very stiff, clay soil, where the surface has been removed, and 

 you set out a Norway maple there, it will thrive much better 

 than other maples. That is one of the strong points of the 

 Norway maple. 



This subject of tree-planting is one which covers a great 

 deal of ground. I fully believe in planting trees for eco- 

 nomic and ornamental purposes. Whoever plants trees for 

 ornamental purposes ought to live to see the time when they 

 are of great value for timber, and for boards, which they can 



