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duce their kind, thus fulfilling the law of crea- 

 tion, under which the herb and the tree were 

 ordained to yield seed each "after its kind," 

 they are dropped upon the ground by the par- 

 ent tree, and there find the conditions of shel- 

 ter and moisture which enable them to germi- 

 nate. Our lesson, then, is before us. We 

 should gather the tree-seeds when they are 

 ripe. 



This, also, is the appropriate time for plant- 

 ing them. It may not be convenient for us, 

 however, to plant them at once. When, for 

 any reason, the seeds can not be planted at the 

 time of ripening, common sense would indicate 

 that they should be kept, if possible, in such a 

 condition that their power of germination will 

 not be impaired. This is sometimes a difficult 

 matter, owing to the different characters of 

 seeds. The late Dr. John A. Warder, of Ohio, 

 to whom the country is as much indebted as 

 to any one for the interest which has been 

 aroused in recent years in favor of forest tree- 

 planting, has treated the subject of gathering, 

 preserving, and planting seeds so well, in a 

 paper prepared by him for the Minnesota State 



