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merly was or would now be if these evergreens were 

 swept away ; while the aspect of the place is agreea- 

 bly diversified, and even beautified, by their appear- 

 ance. I believe it would sell for some hundreds of 

 dollars more with than without that thrifty, growing 

 clump of evergreens. 



Y. I have already urged, though not strongly 

 enough, that crops, as well as springs, will be im- 

 proved by keeping the crests of ridges thickly 

 wooded, thus depositing moisture in Winter and 

 Spring, to be slowly yielded to the adjacent slopes 

 during the heat and drouth of Summer. I firmly 

 believe that the slopes of a hill whose crest is heavily 

 wooded will yield larger average crops than slope 

 and crest together would do if both were bare of 

 trees. 



YI. The banks of considerable streams, ponds, etc., 

 may often be so planted with trees that these will 

 shade more water than land, to the comfort and 

 satisfaction of the fish, and the protection of those 

 banks from abrasion by floods and rapid currents. 

 Sycamore, Elm, and Willow, do well here ; if choice 

 Grape-Yines are set beside and allowed to run over 

 some of them, the effect is good, and the grapes ac- 

 ceptable to man and bird. 



YII. Never forget that a good tree grows as thrift- 

 ily and surely as a poor one. Many a farmer has to- 

 day ten to forty acres of indifferent cord- wood where 

 he might, at a very slight cost, have had instead 

 an equal quantity of choice timber, worth ten times 



