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Suggestions as to the Management of Small Sizes of Evergreens 
and European Larch, previous to the final Planting. 
When the ground wnich is designed for a Timber-Belt plantation 
is not in a suitable condition for immediate planting, it is advisable 
to plant the small sizes of Evergreens and Larch, into nursery rows, 
where they may be cultivated and cared for, until the ground for the 
final planting can be prepared. The planting in nursery row can be 
quickly and cheaply done, by plowing furrows five or six inches in 
depth, at a distance of two or more feet apart, and planting the 
trees at a distance of eight to twelve inches apart in the furrows, the 
distance to be regulated by the size of the plants. The trees may re- 
main in the nursery rows for two years, when they will have become, 
nice, well-rooted trees, suitable for the final ttansplanting into 
screens, wind-breaks, timber-belts, ornamental grounds, or forest-tree 
plantation. By the adoption of this plan, the final cost of the trees 
will be somewhat increased, but there will be a gain in their value, 
resulting from their growth, during the time they are standing in nur- 
sery rows, and as the growth of some of the trees will be greater than 
others, it will be advisable, at the final transplanting to assort them 
into two or more sizes, although this is not essential, when the trees 
are designed for forest-tree plantation, but it will add very much to 
the symmetry and general appearance of screens, wind-breaks, and 
timber-belts, to have the trees carefully assorted so that the trees of 
each size may be planted separately. 
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Table 
Showing estimate of cost of a Timber-belt of three rows for Shelter. Rows 4 feet 
wide. Plants 4 feet apart in the row. Outside rows Scotch Pine, middle row Nor- 
way Spruce. The Tree belt to enclose four sides of the farm. 
SIZE OF FARM. 
Length of Bell in 
Rods. j ! 
1 ! 
|No. of Plants re- 
quired for three 
I Rows - j 
rt 1 
^ 5 
Q. 
' *! ^ 
0 
r 
Expense of Pre- 
paring Ground '• 
and Planting j 
1 1 
Expense of three 
1 years’ cultiv'n.j 
TOTAL 
COST. 
160 Acres 
640 
7,020 
$55 44 
S27 92 
$60 00 
S143 36 
80 “ 
480 
S.940 
41 58 
20 94 
45 0° 
I16 $2 
40 “ 
320 
3.960 
27 72 
13 96 
30 00 
71 68 
10 “ 
160 
1,980 
13 86 
6 98 
15 00 
35 84 
