The Rescue of an Old Place 



Concerning ing our grove of Chestnut-trees, that were 

 cAestnuts. taken from a plantation of trees in our 

 neighborhood, which had been made some 

 years ago, on one of the neglected places 

 hereabout. They had been set out when 

 small, and left to take their chances with- 

 out cultivation for certainly ten years. 

 How much they had received when very 

 young I cannot say, for their gardener has 

 long since moved away. When we got 

 them they were some three inches in di- 

 ameter one foot from the ground, and 

 slim and stately, with fairly good roots, 

 but not like those of frequently moved 

 nursery trees. We topped them when 

 they were set in the autumn, and as they 

 did not seem very vigorous, the next year 

 we cut them back very severely, of differ- 

 ent lengths, as an experiment. Some of 

 them we left ten feet high, and one of 

 them which had poor roots and looked 

 sickly we cut down to within two feet of 

 the ground. 



Last summer they all put out vigorous 



tops with enormous leaves, but they are 



much beset by the aphis, which makes 



havoc with the first growth, and later by 



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