IGG MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTCIIAL SOCIETY. 



ample opportunity to procure the stock dieaply fis the work ijoes 

 on. To give a clearer idea of the suggestion here intended, allow 

 me to relate some bits of personal experience. 



Four years ago one of my townsmen, pointing to a row of 

 shapely elms in front of his house, said that when working one 

 day in a neighbor's garden he took them up as seedlings, brought 

 them home with him at evening, and planted them in his own 

 garden ; from whence in a few years the}' were removed to their 

 present location, where they have become trees of pronounced 

 beauty. 



Shortly after this conversation occurred, being engaged in work- 

 ing a roadway on my own place after the plan described in this 

 paper, I discovered a number of seedling elms, twenty-five of 

 w hich I transplanted to a locality suitable for their further growth. 

 Soon after this, I discovered b}' the roadside a number of seedling 

 balsam firs ; eighty-five of these were soon screened from the sun 

 under the seat of my buggj', and before nightfall were placed in 

 company with the elms. In other drives, seedling hemlocks, 

 chestnuts, arbor vita?s, tulip trees, beeches, maples, white and 

 yellow pines, etc., presented themselves, and were added to the 

 collection, making quite a complete nursery. In the fall, hickory 

 nuts, chestnuts, and horse chestnuts were planted, and the seed- 

 lings gave me much delight by their peculiarities of growth the 

 following season. 



These have been transplanted in such a manner that I expect in 

 time to place them in permanent positions, and have them suc- 

 ceed, — even the diflicult hickory. You see that from this sugges- 

 tion, caught from my neighbor, has grown a line home nursery ; 

 from this in the spring I shall transplant at least tweuty-tivc well 

 grown trees, which being removed at the right time, and without 

 the roots becoming at all dry, will be much more sure to grow 

 than those which I might obtain in the market. These trees 

 liave not cost me one dime in ca&h. Every item of labor con- 

 nected with them has been done by myself personally — which 

 was also to my physical benefit. 



Another source of supply for a farm nursery is the nurseryman 

 who grows from seed ; who will sell seedling ornamental or 

 timber trees, at from one-quarter of a cent to two cents each, 

 according to the variety. Five dollars so invested will give a tine 

 start to a farm nursery, and in a short sjjacc of time will create a 



