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aiittost esrtain to fesflft in a complete failure, as such seeds die' in' df^it'g.- 

 Others retain their vitality for months or years. In |the description of the 

 different trees, the time when each ripen its seeds, will be noted; alsa 

 whether they can be kept or not, with any peeuliarity which may be required 

 in their management. 



HOW TO PBOCUKE SEEDS. 



the seeds of those trees which are native and convenient^ may be pro- 

 cured, by such as want them, in person, or by assistants sent out for that 

 purpose. Generally all may be had of the seedmen, if application be made 

 at the proper season ; which should be done a short time before the" kind de- 

 sired ripen. If the seedman be honest and- intelligent he will send out only 

 fresh seeds, and such as will be sure to grow. Persons wanting seeds can 

 often procure such as they need by an exchange of other seeds, with persons 

 resident in the neighborhood of the native trees, by making use of the pro- 

 visions of the post-ofSce laws, by which four ounces of seeds may be sent foi^ 

 two cents to any part of the States. When exchanges cannot be made, sev 

 exal persons who desire the same kind of seeds may dispatch a gatherer after 

 them to a distance ; and when neither of these methods will succeed without; 

 too great expense, they may be procured from the large dealers in forest 

 seeds. 



In an exchange of seeds it will often happen-, not only that seeds' may be' 

 procured, but also'miich valuable information be obtained in additio-n by the' 

 correspondence. 



Many of the seeds of the forest trees can be gathered by the simple pro-' 

 cess of picking them up When they fall ', but in some cases they are too smalf 

 to be thus gathered,- or armed with such appendages as make them float ta 

 such distances, as to prevent that method of procuring th«m. In such cases' 

 they must be gathered from the trees. This is especially true of the betu- 

 laceae, salicacese, and the eoniferas. The mode of gathering these seeds re- 

 quire a more detailed statement. 



WHEN TO GROW TKEBg. 

 Nearly every man we meet is ready to confess that he sees the necessity of 

 having the trees growing in the country— some, because on every cold day 

 in winter the wind pierces through the thieKest under end over clothes they 

 can wear, and yet be able to handle the pitch-fork and grain-scoop to feed 

 the farm stock-^some, because they flounder through the drifting, blinding 

 snow as they pass along the publioVoad, and knowthat a slight belt of cedars' 

 or other evergreens would check both the wind and the snow. The poor 

 man, with his wife and children, repeat, " Oh, how cold it is !" as they are 

 hovering over the two small sticks, part of a small load of second rate green 

 wood, for which he has paid at the rate of $12 per cord, and which are now 

 smouldering in the stove— not enough fire to raise the temperature of the 

 room above the freezing point, whose poor inmates dare not add another 



