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nut (some from seeds selected by Vice President T. C. 

 Tlmrlow) ; also there are a variety of shrubs, privet hedges, 

 grapes, and a few young applications. 



A few horse-chestnuts look so poorly, including the vari- 

 ety having that lovely pink flower, that I intend to remove 

 them. 



There has been more or less of a nursery of trees on 

 the farm since 1869, but, of all the evergreen trees, the 

 white pine is my favorite for general use, of which there is 

 an ample quantity of seedlings on the place. 



The methods of planting have varied with the size of the 

 tree, but it is the rule to dig the hole of ample size and re- 

 place the gravel thrown out, with loam taken from some new 

 road bed, where the gravel is placed. 



Young trees, with short roots, are mulched with grass, or 

 leaves, and watered when the dryness of the season requires 

 it ; or, if mulched in advance, the effect of drought is often 

 prevented, and watering becomes unnecessary. 



All trees, especially those that are to remain as fixtures 

 and not serving as protection to the others, are benefitted by 

 judicious pruning. A little book, translated, and issued by 

 the Mass. Society for Promoting Agriculture is a useful 

 hand book on Pruning (by Des Care). 



While it has been a great pleasure to see my planted trees 

 grow and to aid them by pruning, it has also given me much 

 satisfaction to see the improvements in natural plantations 

 where I have trimmed, thinned and otherwise pruned them. 



I have also to report a plantation of about four hundred 

 and fifty trees set out last spring, mostly pines of several 

 kinds, on the north side of my farm road, and the strip of 

 larch trees adjoining them which were set out about 1876. 



Several thousand (perhaps twenty thousand) trees have 

 been set by me with the intention of securing fine and well 

 shaped specimens. 



As I stated to my visitors, I have now enough trees of 

 sufficient size, on my house lot of fifteen to twenty acres to 

 consider that I am sufficiently protected from the winds that 

 have swept over my fields in winter, to commence planting 



