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raised a fine crop of bull pine seedlings, transplanting every 

 spring and reseeding the same bed, and I never failed of a good 

 stand. 



Some years ago I conceived the idea of raising evergreens in 



central Minnesota and so 

 we started a nursery at 

 Paynesville. We cleared out 

 the brush and planted in 

 the leaf mould. Having 

 shelter on the south side, 

 when directions were fol- 

 lowed we had splendid suc- 

 cess. Bull pine, concolor, 

 pungens and Douglas 

 spruce, all came up through 

 that congenial leaf mould 

 and did splendidly. Then a 

 larger area was cleared and 

 about $300 worth of seed 

 planted. But some way 

 they were not weeded in 

 time. Twenty dollars spent 

 in weeding at the right time 

 would have saved $1,000 

 worth of seedlings. The 

 seed came up all right and 

 the weeds came also. Twice 

 I went up in June and 

 found the weeds two feet 

 tall and thick as they could 

 stand. I pulled them up 

 and, of course, pulled up 

 about five little evergreens 

 to every weed. 



Now an evergreen, large 

 or small, makes its push in 

 Engieman spruce. early June. If well cared 



for it comes up good and stocky. If weeds are allowed to grow 

 they become weak-kneed and fall over, and it is hard to ever get 

 them up again. For a persistent lack of timely weeding I threw 

 up the job, but first I demonstrated a fact which should be a 

 valuable asset to all this northwest, that with a very little care 



