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only after they have grown another year in 

 the seed-bed, it will be all the better. They 

 will have multiplied their roots so as to be 

 able to take hold of the soil of their permanent 

 home with the greater vigor and assimilating 

 power, and will make a more rapid and sturdy 

 growth. 



By planting seeds in the seed-bed or nursery 

 at the same time that the field is taken in 

 hand to be made ready for the ultimate plant- 

 ing, the trees will be getting ready to be plant- 

 ed while the ground is being prepared by 

 thorough cultivation to receive them and give 

 them a good send-off, so that no time will have 

 been lost. 



But the question comes in here, whether it 

 is better for one to plant the seeds of trees, or 

 to procure trees for planting from those who 

 make it their business to raise them for sale. 



Of course, if one is about to plant only a 

 few trees, he will hardly hesitate about pur- 

 chasing them, rather than be at the trouble 

 of raising them from the seed. But the ques- 

 tion respects chiefly those who may be propos- 

 ing to plant on the large scale, as, for instance, 



