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for, planting and tending a few, or many trees. With the care 

 of a few trees our affections are surely turned towards tliem, 

 and a thoughtful training and directing of their growth will re- 

 ward their owners by quickened development and more perfect 

 symmetry. As a rule, and such is my own experience, our 

 native trees, both deciduous and evergreen, are to be preferred, 



for all kinds of planting to the foreign varieties. They thrive 

 better and preserve a more perfect development, where a for- 

 eign variety deteriorates more frequently as its age increases. 



Young trees which are set out in more exposed locations, 

 even with the very best of care in preparation and planting, 

 cannot always be expected to thrive, but frequently need an 

 addition of more hardy, and perhaps less desirable varieties, 

 to be planted among them as nurses, with the idea of removing" 

 these latter when the permanent trees are well started. Hills 

 of Indian corn are also sometimes planted on the southerly side 

 of young trees, and are allowed to remain there during their 

 first winter as a shield from sun and wind. Foreign trees are 

 often very desirable to mix with natives for effect in planting, 

 and in protected locations, and should by no means be entirely 

 discarded for such valuable uses. It has been recommended 

 by many to import our trees but more especially when the re- 

 sources of our own nation were less known than to-day. The 

 European larch has been highly recommended for extensive 

 planting on poor land, but my experience and that of a well 

 known member and former Trustee of tliis Society, is against 

 such recommendations. I believe that the white pine is 

 the best growth for most of our lands, to be followed in natural 

 rotation by deciduous trees on most New England soils which 

 would be devoted to tree raising. An eminent authority says 

 that "woodlands which have been long preserved by their 

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