THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



be kept staked for a couple of years. Every 

 year we separate these shoots from the pop- 

 lar trees in the garden, sometimes keeping 

 them in rows for a year, and again planting 

 them at once in permanent places. By degrees 

 we are planting these poplars wherever there 

 is space, just inside the stone walls that 

 border the roadway, almost too unfrequented 

 to be called a highway, that runs through 

 the farm. Of more than a himdred of these 

 little shoots thus planted not one has died, 

 although several have been broken by cattle, 

 which eat the poplar leaves with avidity. 



The deciduous -tree seeds that germinate 

 most easily are maple, catalpa, ash, linden, 

 birch, oak, walnut, and hickory. Of the seeds 

 of the tulip tree but a small proportion — ^from 

 five to ten per cent — ^germinate; it is a tree 

 difficult to raise from seed. 



The seed-bed for seeds of deciduous trees 

 should be prepared in the same manner as 

 for evergreens. The seeds should be sown in 

 rows from eight to twelve inches apart; light 



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