The Rescue of an Old Place 



all the digging around and high feeding 

 we have given it ; but in late June omi- 

 nous yellow spots appear upon the leaves, 

 great orange-colored excrescences disfig- 

 ure the young shoots, and the first thing 

 we know they are all shriveled and dying, 

 and the ground underneath it is strewn 

 with blackened leaves. Later it pulls it- 

 self together and gets out a feeble crop of 

 young sprouts, just enough to enable it to 

 hold its own from year to year, but which 

 seem to add almost nothing to its girth, 

 and very little to its height. 



Now, can any one tell me what is the 

 proper punishment for that ? 



Of the perversity of Hemlocks I could 

 write a volume. I knew something of 

 their waywardness in the State of Maine, 

 but even in Massachusetts, where every- 

 thing is regulated by law, they show no 

 higher sense of duty. 



In vain do you coax along a beautiful 

 little tree, carefully raised in a nursery 

 till it has a fine ball of roots, to live and 

 thrive for several seasons ; at the end of 

 that time you find it in the spring yellow 

 and brown and bare, with every sign of 

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