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the attention of the Committee : but, rememberina; that we 

 were agriculturalists for that day at least, we looked away 

 from these interesting subjects of intense curiosity and turned 

 our attention to the farm and the trees. 



If any doubts previously existed whether Oaks and Walnuts, 

 and other Forest Trees, are susceptible of cultivation from the 

 seed, they were entirely dispersed, for we found ourselves led 

 through winding paths among a great variety of Forest Trees 

 of twenty, thirty and forty feet in height, covering the north- 

 ern declivity from the base to the summit of the hill which 

 gives name to the farm, which was long since denuded of its 

 primitive forest, and was, within the memory of the writer, a 

 bleak hill top, where the naked soil was exposed to all the 

 winds that blew. 



Many acres of Woodland, sufficiently covered with this 

 artificial growth, are there seen, fully occupying the ground 

 and just as secure against any casualty by the elements, or the 

 seasons, as any native forest ; indeed, the natural intermixture 

 of different kinds of trees, and the winding paths apparently 

 conforming to the natural position of ground and trees, would 

 lead any one to suppose themselves threading the intricacies of 

 a native forest, planted by winds and squirrels, from the nuts 

 and acorns of the former denizens of the soil. 



We had encouragement that Major Poore, the prcprietor, 

 would give us a history of this plantation to incorporate into 

 this report, but his frequent letters from the capital show that 

 his attention is otherwise engaged at present ; but as the plan- 

 tation has been entered for a premium with the State Society, 

 the public will in due time become possessed with a full history 

 of this most successful experiment, upon the raising of Forest 

 Trees, from the seed. 



It should be understood that the Committee of this Society 

 had no occasion to act officially upon this plantation, it being- 

 in other hands, but only most cheerfully embraced the opportu- 

 nity offered by the polite invitation of Mr. Poore, to learn 

 something which is of importance to every farmer, and the 

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