RAISING TREES FROM SEED 



reset to twelve or fourteen inches apart in 

 the nursery. 



The object of this frequent transplanting 

 is to cause the young trees to make fibrous 

 root-growth. If we dig up a little pine tree or 

 hemlock in the woods, it will be found to have 

 a tap-root and two or three side roots; where- 

 as, the nursery-grown tree is composed of a 

 mass of fibrous roots, and these fibrous roots 

 enable the tree to stand the transplanting 

 and to make a quick growth, so that our four- 

 year-old tree grown in the nursery has great 

 vitality of root and is almost sure to live. 



The United States Forestry Department 

 recommends the planting of pine trees at a 

 distance of six feet apart in all directions. 

 This is, of course, for those who are growing 

 pines for lumber; but on a private estate, 

 where one does not grow them with any 

 intention of cutting them down in a few 

 years, to sell, they would naturally be placed 

 with an idea of beauty in the landscape. 



Pine trees will grow anywhere, on almost 

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