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windbreaks and screens, splendid groups and 

 colonies of timber trees, specimen and Avenue 

 trees, hedges of hemlocks and spruce, lately 

 silver-firs, indeed all the tall growing evergreens 

 from our own plantations, then and only then, 

 will we see as many ** happy trees " as we long to 

 see and should see. 



^ Some day when our little trees are older and 

 bear seed, we can ^art growing our own seed- 

 lings, by Parting the seeds in sandy loam in cold 

 frames in early Spring, ju^ as we do our bedding 

 plants — plants which can only please us for a 

 season, whil^ the evergreen trees will grow on and 

 on to an evergreen old age. And as a Scotch bard 

 said a long, long, time ago, and said truly, 

 " The trees are growin' while y're sleepin'." 



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