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place of meat. The cake that is left after pressing 

 has value as food for stock and fowls. 



The conifers possess one particular advantage in 

 the fact that they seem to require no cultivation at 

 all. Many of them are lovers of mountain sides and 

 of rough land and may be gfown where other fruit 

 trees would not thrive, or at least could not be raised 

 profitably. 



Pines, like other nut trees to be used for fruiting 

 purposes, should be set far enough apart so that the 

 trees may have full sunlight and little competition 

 from other pines, otherwise they will go on to make 

 timber trees and not be very fruitful. Conifers, as 

 a group, are more exacting than are some other kinds 

 of nut trees in relation to soil and climate, each 

 species being inclined to grow in pure stand in lo- 

 calities of its own choice. Nut bearing conifers for 

 the most part belong to warmer parts of the world. 

 Some which are hardy enough when transplanted to 

 the latitude of New York grow slowly. The sugar 

 pine, Pinus Lambertiana, for example, one of the 

 most magnificent of forest trees in the west, with 

 rich sugary and oily nuts, furnishing also a solid 

 sugar from its evaporated sap, becomes homesick in 

 the east. It has not fruited to my knowledge here 

 and grows very slowly. The common pifion, Pinus 

 edulis, has sometimes made not more than one or 

 two inches' growth in a year on my country place, 

 and the same is true of the Torrey pine, Pinus Tor- 

 reyana. The Jeffrey Bull pine, Pinus Jeffreyi, is 

 one of the most beautiful pines in my collection and 



