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one-lialf inch thick, and graft each over. This requires considerable 

 time, but one could get large bearing trees in a year or two. If it is on 

 a piece of timber land it would have to be cleared, and the sprouts grafted. 

 We would not advise grafting sprouts, unless they are on land that is 

 comparatively level, and free from rocks. The labor of mowing the 

 underbrush, and gathering the nuts is too great on rough land. That is 

 our experience, whatever others have discovered. E. M. Engle & Son. 



There is, undoubtedly, a rapidly increasing interest in chestnut 

 culture, and it is going to increase until there are a great number of 

 extensive orchards in the country, and until thousands of bushels of nuts 

 are marketed yearly. Grafting on small stocks about the same size as 

 the scion, and doing the work close to the ground, seems to be best. Still, 

 by cutting back older trees, and getting new vigorous shoots, there is no 

 reason why chestnut trees can not be top-worked, the same as the old 

 apple tree. My son climed to the top of a big chestnut two years ago, 

 and put in a single scion with the cleft graft, and last fall he brought into 

 the office quite triumphantly a handsome lot of burrs that came from that 

 scion, which clearly proves that the thing can be done all right. — J. H. 

 Hale, 'Ttural 'Ne^v Yorker." 



Give fools their gold, and knaves their power, 



Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall. 

 Who plows a field or trains a flower. 



Or plants a tree is more than all; 

 For he who blesses, most is blest, 



And God and man will own his worth 

 Who seeks to leave as his bequest. 



An added beauty to the earth. 



