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with the thought that he is doing a work not 

 only for the present year, but for ten, twenty, 

 it may be fifty years to come. To secure a 

 more complete preparation of the ground for 

 his tree-crop, let him for a year plant it with 

 potatoes or some seed which will call for the 

 use of the hoe or cultivator, and thus kill off 

 the weeds which otherwise might kill his trees 

 by taking their food from them. Now he may 

 plant his trees, though there will be no loss if 

 he waits still another year and works the ground 

 yet more thoroughly with another temporary 

 crop. At the end of ten years he will proba- 

 bly see in the stalwart growth of his trees 

 that his seeming delay was really the best has- 

 tening. 



Meanwhile, with his first breaking of the 

 ground, if he expects to grow his trees from 

 the seed, he should have procured the seeds 

 and planted them in a nicely pulverized seed- 

 bed, where the young trees can be watched and 

 kept free from weeds in their tender infancy. 

 If he transplants them from one seed-bed to 

 another at the end of their first year's growth, 

 and plants them where they are to stand finally 



