The Rescue of an Old Place 



want them, as from our elevation we can 

 look directly over the top of a very tall old 

 Apple-tree which stands at the foot of the 

 slope near the house, and a Willow in the 

 distance will have to be quite a tree to be 

 really troublesome. A vista cut here and 

 there in the line will really enhance the 

 charm of the prospect, but at present they 

 are not more than fifteen feet high. 



Another inquiry has been made with 

 regard to the preparation of the soil on 

 the hill for the Pines. 



The pa- Unfortunately, we did nothing in the 



Krl^f'our way of making a bed for them beyond the 

 process I have described. No doubt, 

 they would have fared much better for a 

 little feeding, and more of them would 

 have lived, but the hill was very steep and 

 hard to get at, even with a wheelbarrow ; 

 and, besides, we had no soil to spare, for 

 we needed everything we could get for 

 the lawn, and did not care to buy any for 

 so doubtful an enterprise. We therefore 

 tried our experiment under the sternest 

 conditions. However, those tiny Pilgrim 

 Fathers of the future forest stood the trial 

 like little men. Some of them, it is true, 

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