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leaves and flower-stalks, this is not the season for moving 
them—they are for fall planting. We will consider only 
young stock, in condition for removal and ready for active 
growth. We need not look where there has been much 
mowing or close grazing, or where severe fires have run. 
These exterminate all the tender green things. But in 
almost any place where fairly natural conditions remain, we 
may expect to find young plants of each species commingled 
with the old. Let us make the 
old fruiting plants our guide in 
finding the less conspicuous and 
less easily recognizable younger 
generation. Under and near by 
the old flowering-dogwood tree, for 
example, we may find a few little 
dogwoods that have sprung up 
from seeds. If there appear to 
be none, let us look closely, for 
se a the id shrahs oe the dogwoods come on slowly. The 
little seedlings in the grass; c, an : 
older seedling growing in the Seeds often require several years 
ee ere to germinate, and the seedlings 
under favorable conditions may grow but a few inches a year, 
But the puniest of the little shade-dwarfed seedlings that we 
may find, will respond wonderfully if set out in a nursery row, 
where they have plenty of room and light. They will soon 
make fine trees. 
Figure 78 is a diagram of a ninebark growing at the edge 
of alawn. From its swollen pods hundreds of thousands of 
seeds are shed every year. They are sown about over the 
grass, or tossed more widely when the wind sways the 
bushes. Sooner or later, most of them germinate and a few 
succeed ina striking root in the soil and in lifting their pretty 
green leaves to the light. ‘The mowing of the lawn clips their 
tops; but many of these seedlings have leaves that are below 
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