ie THE DOUGLAS FIR. 
face. Where a wooden fence is made, it will be found necessary to 
run a piece of zinc or tin along the top of the fence, and at right 
angles to it, which will prevent the inroads of all such climbing 
vermin. 
After remaining for two seasons in the seed-bed, the young plants 
should be carefully raised and replanted in lines in another part of 
the nursery. The lines may be 12 inches apart, and the seedlings” 
planted at a distance of 3 inches from each other in the rows. 
Here they may remain until they begin to crowd upon each other, 
when they should be lifted and replanted, the size and growth 
being a good guide as to their distance apart in the nursery lines. 
As the Douglas fir can be removed with the greatest safety when of 
a large size, we have found it better to allow the plants to remain 
in the nursery borders until they have attained a height of from 2 
to 3 feet, when, if the above instructions are carefully carried out, 
strong, bushy, well-rooted specimens will be the result, 
