CAMPBELL S SOIL CULTURE MANUAL 



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not winds were doing their worst to smother and parch 

 out vegetation in this section of the country, those pines 

 showed no indication of distress. Going in among them 

 and stooping down, and looking under their lower limbs, 

 one could not see a single particle of vegetable growth aside 

 from the trees. The ground was thoroughly mulched with 

 the needles which had fallen from them, and blanketed the 



ARBOR LODGE TREES. 



Part of the evergreen grove set by the hands of the late J. Sterling 



Morton. 



earth, so to speak, with the mold which they had created. 

 Removing this carpet of needles one could find moist, cool 

 soil at all times. The conditions about the roots of these 

 trees were such as their ancestors found in the great pine- 

 ries of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. 



lilany varieties of trees have been condemned as unfit 

 for cultivation in Nebraska, after trying them m isolated 



