108 THE CANADIAN FORESTER'S 



Seeds are of three kinds ; eacK of the three demanding 

 a different sort of treatment, viz., nuts and acorns, liard 

 seeds, and soft seeds. 



Nuts (walnuts) should be sown, if possible, as soon as 

 they are ripe. If the spring must be waited for, the nuts 

 will keep if laid in damp sand and kept in a cool place 

 (a cold cellar will do) ; or, better still, kept out of doors, 

 covered thickly with straw, leaves, etc. In this case, 



loo. — Negundo fraxini folium — Ash-leaved maple. ' 



though, you must look out for mice and squirrels, who 

 are very fond of these delicacies. 



Hard seeds are the peach-stones, pips, etc. "We need 

 not trouble ourselves about them, as they have nothing 

 to do with our design, and I only mention them to 

 establish their order and classification. 



Tlie soft seeds comprise the seeds of all the coniferous 

 and deciduous trees except those mentioned under the 

 two preceding heads. Most of these keep well enough 

 in sand, if placed in a cool, but not a cold, place. Some, 

 however, want sowing as soon as they are ripe, as the 

 fir, the silver-maple, the plane, the elm, the poplar, and 



