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years ago, instituted a Committee, and ofFored large premiums 

 for the culture of Forest Trees, but with very little effect, so 

 far as raising them from the seed is concerned. Some experi- 

 ments were made, and premiums were awarded, but from re- 

 peated observation of plantations on which they were paid, 

 very small encouragement was derived for the payment of 

 premiums, or even for a continuance of the offer. 



But we are happy to find that raising Forest Trees from the 

 seed, is a more promising business than we had been led to 

 consider it, and it is a satisfaction to know that we have in the 

 county one or more forests of cultivated trees, that are already 

 past the period of experiment, and taking rank with ancient 

 and natural forests. 



No claim has been presented for the premium offered within 

 the last year, but a forest of cultivated trees has been brought 

 to the notice of the Committee, which affords a complete de- 

 monstration of the practicability, and, also, we have no doubt, 

 of the utility, of raising any and all kinds of forest trees from 

 the seed. 



Soon after the annual Cattle Show at Lawrence, the Com- 

 mittee on forest trees, with the President and Secretary of the 

 Agricultural Society, were favored with an invitation to visit 

 the Indian Hill farm, in West Newbury, by the enterprising 

 proprietor, B. P. Poore, Esq., the well known Perlcy of the 

 Boston Journal, and spent a most pleasant and useful " Oc- 

 tober day " in that interesting locality. 



The invitation and visit had special reference to the culti- 

 vated forest trees, which already adorn the sides and summit 

 of " Indian Hill," but no person of science and taste can spend 

 a day there without being intensely interested in a great vari- 

 ety of other subjects of antiquity and literary curiosity. The 

 house, the office, the barn, the out-houses, the farming-tools, — 

 all afford most interesting subjects of curiosity and study, es- 

 pecially the office, which is a most interesting store-house of 

 books, manuscripts, autographs, arms, and antiquities of all 

 ages and many nations, well worthy to have entirely averted 



