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any part of the Province. The important point in planting by seeds is that they should 

 be planted as soon as perfectly ripe. Some of our trees ripen their seeds quite early. 

 The soft maples, the dasycarpum and rubrum, and the elms, ripen their seeds in June. 

 These maples ripen their seeds in June, and it should be gathered and sown at once so 

 that you can get a tree of considerable growth before the winter season. The seed of the 

 elms should also be sown at once ; it should be sown in drills not deeply, but very lightly. 

 These small seeds require to be covered with only sufficient earth to keep them moist, 

 and they will produce plants in a very short time, and gain sufficient strength to tide 

 over the cold season. If, however, you are not in ?, position to sow the seed at once, and 

 wish to keep them till the next spring, they should be mixed with sandy soil and kept 

 damp, yet not so damp as to cause them to germinate, and not be allowed to get dry. In 

 this way you may preserve them with safety. If kept dry in papers some of them will 

 have vitality in the spring, but very many of them will not germinate the next season, 

 and the proper way to preserve them is to mix them with moist earth. But it is not true 

 of all the maples that they ripen their seeds so early in the season. The sugar maple 

 ripens its seeds late in the autumn, as well as the ash-leaved maple, and unless you wish 

 to sow them in the autumn, you have to preserve them and sow them in the spring. Now 

 come to the butternuts, chestnuts and walnuts ; these all ripen in the late autumn, and, in 

 suitable soils, may be planted as soon as gathered, and allowed to freeze and thaw with 

 impunity, as they will not suffer therefrom, but will generate freely in the spring. But 

 in soils which lie under the effect of alternate freezing and thawing, it will be better 

 to mix the seed with soil in sufficient quantity to keep the seeds moist, and prevent them 

 from moulding, and keep them until spring before planting, or they may be spread out 

 very thin upon the ground, and covered with a sod, in which manner they will keep 

 fresh. It is not necessary that the nuts will be subjected to frost, that is a matter of 

 perfect indifference ; the important thing is not to permit them to become dry. These 

 trees can be grown in nursery fashion, until they attain sufficient size to be planted where 

 they are to remain, especially the elms, maples, and ashes. The nut-bearing trees will 

 make better growth if they be planted in the nut where they are to remain. The bass- 

 wood ripens its seeds about September or October, generally late in the fall ; those of 

 the cedar also ripen in the fall. White cedar is propagated from seed, and when the seeds 

 are to be preserved, they should be mixed with nearly dry earth, moist, but not wet." 



Senator Allan gives some statistics, for the accuracy of which he vouches, concerning 

 certain trees : — 



" Elm trees taken from the woods as young trees of about six inches round the stem, 

 and between eight and nine feet high, have attained in forty-five years a height and girth 

 round the stem at three feet from the bottom, in several instances, as follows : — One sixty 

 feet high, eight feet in circumference, at three feet from the ground ; one sixty-five feet 

 high, eight feet two inches in circumference at three feet from the ground ; one sixty feet 

 high, seven feet nine inches in circumference at three feet from the ground. Another 

 elm planted about fifty years ago, a small tree from the nursery gardens, has now grown 

 to a height of seventy feet, with a girth at three feet from the ground of eight feet six 

 inches. 



" A red oak, planted as a sapling about forty-eight years ago, is now nearly fifty feet 

 high, and measures five feet eight inches round the stem at four feet from the ground. 



" A maple of the same age is six feet five inches round the stem, and nearly sixty 

 feet high, and two others planted within the same period, are six feet in girth at four 

 feet from the ground, and between fifty and fifty-five feet high. 



" All three of these were, when planted in their present position, young trees about 

 six or seven feet high — just the size at which they can be most safely transplanted when 

 taken from the woods. 



" Of beech I have no record that I can entirely depend upon, but I believe one that 

 I measured, which gave nearly four feet as the girth at about the same height from the 

 ground, and was about thirty-eight feet high, has been planted over forty years. 



