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bricklayer's trowel, made a perpendicular incision in the turf, 

 dropped in the acorn and closed the aperture. They came up 

 nicely, the crows were outwitted, and they now are doing well. 

 In the centre was a worthless marsh. This I drained with 

 considerable expense, and set out a row of trees on its 

 western verge — cedar and hackmatack — so that the prevailing 

 westerly winds will waft the seeds over its surface. 



I would recommend the planting of hackmatack seeds on 

 moist ground, as they are very hardy and of rapid growth, 

 and are quite valuable for ship timber. They also bear trans- 

 planting well. 



Nut-bearing trees, such as walnut, white oak, and many 

 other kinds might be raised with profit. About thirty years 

 ago, the venerable Rev. William A. Drew planted some nuts 

 which he procured at a store in Augusta. They came up 

 and are now comely trees, the observed of all observers, and 

 stand as monuments to his skill and taste. 



There is in the western part of the pleasant town of 

 Wayne, a range of sand hills, as bare and desolate as the 

 desert of Sahara, yet the old settlers say that less than a 

 century ago they were covered with a beautiful growth of 

 deciduous trees, (mostly beech) and when cleared they pro- 

 duced bountiful crops of the cereals, but as soon as the potash 

 in the soil was exhausted, the winds commenced blowing it 

 from the tops of the hills, covering the rich valleys below, 

 and rendering them as sterile as the h,ill-tops. But it is 

 believed that this wholesale destruction might be averted, 

 and the barren district re-forested, by planting with the 

 Carolina tar-pine, (common pitch pine) the seeds of which 

 can be obtained in large quantities from Plymouth County, 

 Mass., where they flourish well on land quite as barren as 

 the sand hills above referred to. 



