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by the cattle ranging in winter, could be called 

 a tree. . . . 



" Thirty -five thousand trees were imported 

 and set out, besides a large number of native 

 trees procured in this country; but fully three 

 fourths of the whole plantation was made by 

 sowing the seed directly on the ground where 

 the trees were to stand. A large variety of 

 trees, both native and foreign, were employed, 

 and while few have failed entirely, the foreign 

 species, as was to be expected from the situa- 

 tion, have been the most successful. Larch and 

 Scotch pines, transplanted from the nursery in 

 1853, are now (1875) forty feet high, and from 

 ten to twelve inches in diameter at one foot from 

 the ground. Trees of the Scotch pine, raised 

 from seed planted in 1861, where the trees have 

 grown, but in favorable situations, and which 

 have been properly thinned, have been cut this 

 winter, and measured thirty feet in height and 

 ten inches in diameter one foot from the ground, 

 while the average of the trees in a large planta- 

 tion of Scotch pine, made in the same manner in 

 1862, and which has received no special care, is 

 twenty feet high and six inches in diameter." 



