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necessary to water, as the seeds being planted so 

 shallow must be kept in moisture to secure their 

 growth. 



These plants will remain in the seed beds two 

 years, when the strongest will be removed and the 

 weaker ones allowed to remain another year. They 

 are removed to the open ground and there shaded 

 as has been before described. 



A light, sandy soil, well mixed witli vegetable 

 mould is the best for these seed beds, and if the 

 soil is tenacious, it is improper and should be 

 mixed as above. It will be time well spent 

 to get leaf mould that is fine and well disinte- 

 grated and mix with sand, and then mix again 

 with about equal quantities of this heavier soil, 

 where such, or similar soils are not at hand for 

 the beds. 



The practice of Robert Douglass was to shade 

 with artificial bowers, made by setting posts in the 

 ground standing about 8 feet high; to these are 

 nailed crosspieces to support boughs or trees,which 

 are then placed on in sufficient quantities to make 

 a natural broken shade. 



In the ordinary lath frame seed beds, ic will be 

 well to set small stakes along the edges, to which 

 will be nailed fence boards resting upon the ground 

 on which the lath frames will rest. 



A very small space will grow an immense num- 

 ber of these trees, and it has occurred to me that 

 these beds for small plantations might be made in 

 boxes and kept under cover in a well lighted 



