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The seeds of the locust tree must be gathered in autumn; 

 and preserTed till the ensuing spring, and sown at the time of 

 planting earlj beans. Every locust seed is a small bean, and if 

 sown on fruK moist earth, will vegetate as surelv as a bean, 

 and grow, in a tolerable soil, from t«-o to four feet high the 

 tirst year. Doubtless it will be best to sow these, at once, in 

 the field where they are finally to grow, as above suggested 

 for acorns : polling up, at the end of one year, all but one, the 

 most thrifty, in each spot. The supernumeraries, thus extract- 

 ed, may be set out to form an additional plantation. 



Larch seeds are found under tCeshells or scales of the cones. 

 These must be gathered early in ilarch : for if suflfered to 

 remain longer on the trees, and warm and dry weather succeed, 

 the scales will rise, and the seeds fall out. If beds be prepared 

 for larch seeds, and the cones spread over them, (the cones 

 may touch one another) the scales will rise, and upon removing 

 the cones with a fine toothed rake, the seeds will fall out. 

 These may then be covered with fine earth, from a quarter to 

 half an inch deep. As the larch trees, growing in this country, 

 are found in low and moist grounds, it is probable that the seeds 

 will vegetcte with more certainty in beds prepared of such a 

 soil. After the cones have been raked and picked off of the 

 first bed, they may be spread over a second, and furnish an ade- 

 quate supply of seed. By moving a few in the first bed, it 

 will be seen whether a sufficiency of seeds hare dropped out. 

 A week, ten days, or two weeks, according to the weather, 

 may be required for the discharge of the seeds, on each bed. 



Trees growing four feet apart every way, will give 2722 to 

 an acre : and if so great a number grow at that distance, they 

 will rise with straighter, cleaner stems. Their thinning? from 

 time to time will turn to good accouat. 



