The Rescue of an Old Place 



these holes we set the trees we selected, 

 which were not over three feet high, but 

 stocky and well rooted. When possible 

 we punt we took up the dirt with them, keeping 

 their roots moist, and well shaded in the 

 cart, and no more were brought at a time 

 than could be set in two or three hours. 

 After they were all planted, with great 

 labor and trouble, we gave our nursery 

 a thorough watering, and then, except 

 on two or three subsequent occasions, 

 when things looked really desperate from 

 drought, they were left to take their 

 chance. Luckily that year the rains be- 

 gan to fall soon after they were set, and 

 the autumn was a very wet one, so that a 

 good many of the little trees were living 

 in the spring ; but another batch, set in 

 the latter part of May the following year, 

 owing possibly to the very heavy rains of 

 1888 and 1889, did so much better, that 

 we shall always be disposed to give the 

 preference to spring planting in the fu- 

 ture. 



Of some one hundred and fifty Pines set 

 upon this barren northerly hillside, under 

 these cruel conditions, about eighty sur- 

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