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men sleep and dream of cool shades in summer and protection in Wintef, the 

 seeds will become trees. 



But how long must they wait ? Take any or all of the following trees : 

 white and red elm, silver and red maple, which may be planted the IBth day 

 of June, white and black ash, chestnut, walnut, butternut, thornless and 

 common locust, all of which may be planted in October ; and the erergreenSj 

 white, red and Scotch pine,, Norway spruce, and the Scotch larch, which can 

 be planted in the spring ; and ten years from the day of planting they will 

 attain a height from 16 to 25 feet, and five years more they will reach from 

 30 to 50 feet, having required no hoing except for the four first years of their 

 existence. The silverJeafed and Lombardy poplar, the river cottonwood, 

 the Balm of Gilead and white willow, all of which grow from cuttings set in 

 the spring, will perhaps make more height aad bulk of wood, but then the 

 timber is of very little worth for any purpose. From these rapid growing 

 trees, good selections can be made. 



It is far better to grow trees from seeds in the spot where they are to re- 

 main, than to attempt to transplant them, even when the nursery belongs to 

 the planter ; and it is worse than useless to depend upon getting trees from 

 the native forests. A tree already growing, may as well be left where nature 

 planted it, as to be dug up, half killed and set in another place. That adds 

 nothing to tbe number of trees in the world ; but raising a tree from a seed 

 is like a new creation. The man who wants trees should buy his seeds, hire 

 poor men, women and children to gather them for him, or better still go with 

 them to select and take only such as he wants, then he has them alive and 

 sure to grow, if he plants them at once, or places them where they will be 

 safely kept until his land is ready to receive them. 



Time and money are both saved by planting seeds rather than by trans- 

 planting trees ; as any one will see who shall note the difference in time thai 

 it will take to plant one thousand [acorns, even where they are covered with 

 a handful, or half an inch deep with leaf mould or fine compost, or to trans- 

 plant one thousand trees three years old. The acorns may be planted by a 

 man in less than a day; transplanting the trees will tate two men more than 

 a week. An acre of land may be planted with several thousand seeds of dif- 

 ferent kinds in a day ; while it would take twice as many men more than a 

 week to put out the same number of trees ; and rectuires to b6 all done in 

 the busy seeding time of spring. 



Most men have been discouiaged in undertaking the work ofplanting 

 timber, by supposing that all plantations must be made only by planting trees 

 raised by the nurserymen from seeds. A little reflection will correct this 

 error ; as well as show that the nurserymen could not possibly supply what 

 ought to be' the present demand for trees. The county of Rock requires the 

 produce of 86,400 acres of trees for its full supply of fuel and timber for 

 other purposes tot all time. Now, if we suppose that but one-half of this 

 amount or 48,200 acres only are to be pianted anew ; then as the trees in the' 



