A Baby Forest 



ate amount of labor. Our experience has Transplant* 



ing more 



shown us, what the books on forestry told satisfactory 



, than sowing. 



us in the beginning, that sowing seeds 

 and nuts is far less satisfactory than trans- 

 planting small trees ; but we have had the 

 entertainment of proving their statements 

 for ourselves, and find our compensation in 

 such trifling results as we have achieved. 

 The Pine seeds, which we shook from the 

 cones in the autumn, and planted before 

 they had time to dry, came up profusely 

 enough in little clusters, but so tiny and 

 weak, that it is wonderful that they are 

 ever discovered even in the thin grass of 

 the hillside, which we leave near them to 

 afford shade. They make, under these 

 conditions, a sturdy little growth so long 

 as the weather is cool and moist, but are 

 apt to disappear altogether in the month 

 of July. Any small tree, that one can 

 pull up by a wayside, will make better re- 

 turns for a little attention than these slow- 

 growing mites from seeds. 



Such White Birch seed as we have sown, 

 either because we did not know when to 

 gather it, or whether it came from the 

 wrong tree, has failed to come up at all ; 



