RAISING TREES FROM SEED 



begin to appear above the earth, and at the 

 end of the first summer should be about two 

 and one-half inches high. This seems a far 

 cry to the pine tree towering fifty feet in the 

 air, but we do not plant such trees for our- 

 selves, but for our children; still a pine tree 

 should be fifty feet high in less than fifty 

 years. 



Two ounces of seed will sow a bed four by 

 six feet, and allowing for seeds that do not 

 germinate and for young plants that die in 

 the first four years of life (they will rarely 

 die after four years), should raise five hun- 

 dred trees; and one pound of seed, after mak- 

 ing a large allowance for those that do not 

 germinate and for trees that do not live, 

 should raise four thousand trees. 



With the first frost in the autumn, the lath 

 screen may be removed from the seed-bed 

 which, toward the end of November of the 

 first year, may then be covered with a spread 

 of fallen leaves, and the whole protected by a 

 single thickness of burlap nailed over the en- 



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