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inches high, and the whole bundle could have been car- 

 ried in an overcoat pocket. I set them out in a nursery, 

 and cared for them by shading and keeping clear of weeds 

 about three years, when they were two and one-half to 

 three feet high, when I planted them in the hedge rows 

 four feet apart, being careful to move them in a warm, 

 moist day in May. Care was taken in having the ground 

 mellow where planted, also to keep as much soil as possi- 

 ble on the roots and not allowing them to get the least 

 dry. I saved a few in the nursery to replace in the hedge 

 if needed, bat by exercising great care in setting have 

 had little trouble that way. I believe if great care is 

 taken in setting a hedge, or, in fact, in setting any kind of 

 trees there will be little difficulty in making them live. 

 The soil is a light loam with a thin strata of clay three 

 feet below. I have used no manure except wood ashes 

 years ago, nothing since. Used a mulch of dry leaves for 

 the first three or four years. After the trees met in the 

 rows, commenced to prune each year the last of August 

 or first of September, by cutting square across the top, 

 also the sides. I keep them about five feet high and now 

 they are one solid wall. About six years ago I com- 

 menced to let the row back of residence grow up to form^ 

 a wind break by allowing the tops to grow but still prun- 

 ing the sides. They are now twenty-five feet high and 

 serve to break the cold northeast storms. My hedges if in 

 a straight line would measure one-third of a mile. Would 

 recommend to any one setting out a hedge to use wire for 

 a fence as mine was somewhat injured by keeping a board 

 fence too long before taking away. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Charles W. Woods. 



STATEMENT OF M. C. ANDREWS, ANDOVER, FOREST TREES- 



I enter for premium not less than 1100 maple trees, 

 (mostly rock), grown and transplanted on my own land. 



