CHAPTER VI 

 How TO PLANT 



ONE may plant seeds, seedlings or cuttings, nursery 

 stock of the usual sizes, or large trees with balls of 

 earth about their roots weighing in some cases 

 many tons. Doubtless the reader knows how to 

 plant seeds : drop a seed, cover it with a little earth, 

 sometimes very little, step on it and the planting is 

 done. Few, however, would think of planting seeds 

 to secure a grove of trees, not realizing how fast 

 trees really grow ; and yet there are oaks in the 

 Arnold Arboretum at Boston so large that a man 

 six feet tall can barely reach around the trunk of 

 one of them at the height of his arms and these oaks 

 were raised from acorns planted by Jackson Daw- 

 son within the memory of persons who are now of 

 middle age. But to attempt to raise a forest, a 

 grove, or even a group of trees near one's house from 

 seeds would be a wasteful process from man's view- 

 point (although not from that of squirrels, chip- 



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