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Mr. Manning. I think there is more difficulty. I would 

 take small trees and cut them down to the ground, plant 

 them in rather damp soil, and mulch them very heavily with 

 leaves. If you transplant small oaks or chestnuts and cut 

 them oif very near the ground, they will live very generally. 

 It is better to get nursery trees, if you can, that have been 

 transplanted frequently. I planted oaks, a few days ago, ten 

 and twelve feet high, ajid I expect they will live. I have 

 planted the Norway maple, carting the trees a dozen or twenty 

 miles, that were eighteen inches in circumference and twenty 

 feet high. I have transplanted basswood, English linden 

 and white-ash trees that were five, six and seven inches in 

 diameter, and I expect they are going to live. I have guar- 

 anteed to make them live, or I have got to take them up. 



Col. Wilson. With regard to the holly, I will say that 

 I have always desired to have a holly in my garden, and last 

 spring I ordered a fine one from Mr. Manning. I prepared 

 a hole three or four feet in diameter, dug it nicely and deeply, 

 gave it good drainage and set out the tree. It shed its 

 leaves, but eventually started out nicely, and to-day it is a 

 handsome tree. If you will take pains, the holly can be 

 transplanted with as much certainty of success as any tree 

 that you set out in your orchard. 



I intended to speak of one fact in the line of the statement 

 made in regard to the town of Middleborough. I recall now 

 to mind, the fact that I ascertained by an examination that I 

 made several years ago, that there were at that time about 

 five thousand acres of woodland in the town of Middleborough 

 more than there were fifty years previously, and that may 

 account for all the prosperity they have been having the last 

 few years in this revenue from box-board logs. 



Mr. Slade spoke of planting white-birch trees among white 

 pines for the aid that the birches will give the other trees in 

 attaining altitude and thus giving them usefulness and value. 

 Of course the birches themselves have a value for hoop poles, 

 because they are used for hooping merchandise and for va- 

 rious other purposes, and the supply in certain places is not 

 sufficient to meet the demand. The white birch is a tree 

 that is much despised. I remember that my father used to 

 tell me that the blasted things would root out everything 



