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hundred thousand trees which he had import- 

 ed, and subsequently as many more raised by 

 him from the seed. These trees occupied about 

 two hundred acres. The land which he plant- 

 ed was of poor soil, stony, exposed to the wind, 

 in short, good for nothing else, but in this re- 

 spect like not a little of the land in the north- 

 ern part of the country, especially in New Eng- 

 land. A variety of trees was planted, such as 

 oaks, ashes, maples, the Norway spruce, the 

 Scotch and the Austrian pine, but principally 

 the European larch. Twenty-nine years after 

 the trees were planted, according to the testi- 

 mony of Prof. Sargent, of Harvard University, 

 who made a personal inspection of the planta- 

 tion, some of the larches were more than fifty 

 feet in height and were fifteen inches in diam- 

 eter, three feet from the ground. Other kinds 

 of trees had grown to a height of forty feet. 

 During the ten years immediately preceding 

 his visit, seven hundred cords of fire-wood had 

 been taken from the plantation, besides all the 

 fencing required for the large estate, and Prof. 

 Sargent says that, at the time of his visit, fire- 

 wood, fence-posts, and railroad-sleepers, to the 



