THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



for fuel, building repairs, and fence-making, 

 could also be produced cheaply , and the whole 

 country made more beautiful. It is not difiS- 

 cult to grow the trees needed for this plant- 

 ing, and the sowing of the seeds, their trans- 

 planting and winter protection are quite sim- 

 ilar to the care necessary in raising perennials 

 from seed, infinitely more interesting, and 

 require only a small corner of the vegetable 

 garden for seed-beds and nursery. 



A little seed-bed, four feet by six feet, and 

 a couple of rows twenty feet long for a nur- 

 sery where the seedlings could be transplanted 

 to live for a year or two, is all the space re- 

 quired to raise many trees — enough at least to 

 fully plant a place of ten acres, as well as to 

 furnish an occupation and a delightful source 

 of interest to all the members of a family. 



May the present lively interest in tree 

 planting and forest culture continue and in- 

 crease, until everywhere our waste lands and 

 denuded hills are again covered with growing 

 timber with all its beauty of form and coloring. 



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