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bered that all of the evergreen trees planted in 1869 were 

 but about ten inches in height, and that the deciduous trees 

 resembled a short alpine stock. The white pines have from 

 time to time been taken from the place, and other trees have 

 since the date of the first planting been added from Ameri- 

 can nurseries. 



The Norway spruces have grown well retaining, as yet, 

 all of their foliage to the ground when planted singly, one 

 specimen having a trunk circumference of three feet and 

 one inch at three feet from the ground and being twenty- 

 seven feet high. These trees have not, of course, reached 

 the age of failure which in most cases comes in our climate 

 at forty or fifty years, the time when the greatest perfection 

 is to be desired. The few white spruces planted show evi- 

 dences of superiority and this will doubtless prove a valua- 

 ble species for the soil. 



The Austrian pine fails earlier than the Norway spruce, 

 often dying unexpectedly when not over twenty-five years 

 old, and the Scotch pine is not so thrifty in our climate as 

 either of the native species. Nearly all of the trees of 

 these two species of pine have failed to give satisfaction 

 and are to be removed in the course of thinning or are to 

 be replaced by more valuable trees. 



The red pines on the place are chiefly the seedlings of a 

 tree, perhaps fifty years old, on the adjoining estate and, 

 judging from the appearance of the older tree and that of 

 another of the same species planted by the late Gen. New- 

 hall on the opposite shore of the lake, they will never 

 prove so valuable in this soil as the white pine when planted 

 singly, although in small plantations they may be quite suc- 

 cessful, certainly more so than most of the foreign ever- 

 greens. The young trees, however, look well and most of 

 them are holding their foliage well down to the ground. 

 The native red pines of our neighborhood at Boxford and 

 at New Castle, N. H., are found on the schist ledges and it 

 may be naturally doubted, therefore, if this species ever 

 flourishes at its best in gravelly soil. 



