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propagated. You may plant the seed in the Fall where 

 you want the tree to grow. Put in one or two inches 

 deep, and in the Spring it will sprout and grow. A good 

 way is to take up a sod, drop the nut and return the sod, 

 grass side down ; you may lay the nuts in a sandy bed in 

 the Fall, let them get the action of the winter frost and 

 in the Spring they will sprout. These had better be 

 transplanted to nursery row, and planted a year or two 

 old. You may also graft the Spanish Chestnut, on our 

 sweet chestnut, but this is tedious. A good way is to 

 take a seedling Spanish Chestnut, and then take scions 

 from some good and well-known Spanish tree, bearing 

 good nuts, and graft it. Thus you are more sure of 

 getting good productive trees. I assure you those you 

 buy from the average nurseryman are not always pro- 

 ducers of the very best nuts. Selection and cultivation, 

 and increased demand, will cause our peninsula nursery- 

 men, intelligent and active men as they are, to remedy 

 all this. 



Now one secret about planting these trees. What- 

 ever size when you plant them, cut them back at that 

 time to two buds, and train your tree from the best one 

 of these. Tf, after several years, a tree dont do well, cut 

 it back to two buds and train over again. All chestnuts 

 revel in such amputations, and I learned this secret of 

 thus raising Spanish Chestnuts from John Landers the 

 well-known Gardener and Horticulturist, who, with his 



