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was cut down in 1871, and where 1 have done much prun- 

 ing, and thinning, to train the young oaks, hickories, white 

 pines, etc., besides planting some Norway spruces and eltns, 

 the former having risen from ten inches to about twenty- 

 four feet during my keeping. 



My water supply is by wind-mill, or steam-pump, the lat- 

 ter seldom used. 



So much for my location, and now a few words about my 

 trees. 



In the spring of lcS69 I received from Waterer's nursery 

 in England, a large number of foreign and American trees, 

 mostly the former. These were small, the pines not over 

 ten inches or one foot tall, and others of equ^il ages. 



To-day were I to seek a similar lot of trees I should be 

 able to secure them in this country, and of greater variety. 



These were planted in a well located nursery until needed, 

 and have been the basis of my plantation. 



Since then Messrs. Douglas, Thurlow, Manning, Strong, 

 and others have supplied my wants. 



A few specimens that I brought home by train in my hand 

 are now even with the top of my house, and affording de- 

 lightful shade. 



In planting I have always set out many more trees than 

 would be eventually allowed to remain, my object being to 

 make the young trees protect each other, and to remove 

 the less desirable ones so that the others should not be in- 

 jured by their contact. A considerable amount of pruning 

 has been necessary, as well as much care to early remove 

 worms that attack the leaders of some of the pines. 



I should say that in the tract now referred to my object is 

 to eventually have what might be termed park trees, or 

 pleasurable ornamental trees. 



Of the planted trees, 1 have Norway, black and white 

 spruce ; Austrian, Scotch, red, and white pine ; hemlocks ; 

 larch, several kinds of maples, English and American elms, 

 ash, mountain ash, acacia, weeping elm, Virgilia lutra, 

 catalpa, willow, tulip, English beech, and American chest- 



