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GARDENING. 



Feb. /, 



Miscellaneous. 



SOWING SEEDS OF ACORNS AND NUT TREES. 



There is a great deal of pleasure in look- 

 ing on trees we have raised with our own 

 hands. With a little care many a one 

 could raise seedlings, which could be set 

 out on the lawn as memorial trees, add- 

 ing much to the interest such trees often 

 afford. 



In the case of acorns and most all nut 

 seeds it has been found that spring is a 

 better time to sow than fall. There are 

 too many risks to run when fall sowing 

 is practiced. Frost and vermin are to be 

 combatted and more attention given to 

 covering than when the work is done in 

 spring. The belief that such seeds as 

 have been mentioned required the action 

 of frost to make them grow was at one 

 time much more general than it is now. 

 As a matter of fact frost is an injury to 

 some nuts, the English walnut for one, 

 for when this sort is sown in the fall it is 

 usually rotten by spring. Let any one 

 who has acorns or hickory nuts or wal- 

 nuts on hand place them at once in 

 slightly moist soil, keeping them in it till 

 the ground is in condition to work in the 

 spring, and the seeds will be in the best 

 possible condition. Get a box' and mix 

 the seed and soil together, placing the 

 the box in some cool place free from frost. 

 The harder shelled sorts will be the better 

 for having the soil rather more damp 

 than acorns recpjire. The latter seem 

 suited if but enough moist material sur- 

 rounds them to prevent any loss of 

 weight. 



When the season has advanced enough 

 that sowing can be properly done, get the 

 seeds into the ground as soon as can be. 

 I like to cover seeds to about their own 

 depth That is to say the top of a hick- 

 ory nut an inch in diameter should be an 

 inch below ground, nothing less. 



When practicable, a covering of leaves 

 or straw should be placedoverthe ground 

 after sowing. It is a great help, keeping 

 the soil moist and loose, permitting the 

 shoots to come to the surface easily when 

 growth starts The covering should be 

 kept on with brush or something suffi- 

 cient to keep it in place. 



Both oaks and hickories are hard to 

 transplant, so are walnuts. Nurserymen 

 transplant the seedlings usually after two 

 year's growth, when they lose but few of 

 them. Hickories are particularly bard to 

 transplant. Amatiurs who want but a 

 plant ortwo of akind, would perhaps, find 

 the placing of the nuts where they wish the 

 trees to be as satisfactory a way as any. 

 Two or three could be placed together 

 all but the strongest to be removed 

 should more than one grow. 



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