A Baby Forest 



ditions, and little yearling Chestnuts, trans- 

 planted and dug about, flourish bravely. 



From a friend in town, whose English Planting 

 Walnut-tree has borne profusely after the 

 recent warm winters, we have obtained 

 fresh nuts, which, promptly set, have ger- 

 minated and given us fine little shoots in 

 one season. This tree is a more rapid 

 grower than any of our native nut-trees, 

 and so far has stood the winters, but we 

 have had no weather below zero here 

 since 1887, and cannot answer for the ef- 

 fect of an old-fashioned season. The field- 

 mice have a great predilection for them, 

 and gnawed our largest one down to the 

 root a year ago, but it came up again in 

 the spring with redoubled vigor, and made 

 up for lost time. 



Small Black Birches, dug up by the Results. 

 roadside, and put into holes prepared for 

 them in the side of the hill, have thriven 

 without much attention, and make a fa- 

 vorable growth ; but some Ailanthus-trees 

 from a nursery, in spite of Horace Gree- 

 ley, have refused to do anything at all. In 

 the swale at the foot of the hill, where the 

 soil is deep and moist, all trees flourish. 

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