House and Garden 
The best place for rest or recreation 
or recuperation at this season is 
ATLANTIC CITY 
and the new Fireproof 
CHALFONTE 
is especially well equipped to supply the 
wants of those who come to secure them 
|l The main highway of travel from Boston to all points in the Maritime 
^ •# Provinces is via Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Daily service from I>ong 
1 Wharf (foot State Street) (except Saturday) in effect _ 
about June 21 , the magnificent steamers “Prince /-/M 
George” “Prince Arthur,” and “Boston” in com- Z' '\ \ 
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illustrated booklets, “Summer Homes in Nova I ‘ 
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J. F. MASTERS, New England Supt., 
Long Wharf, Boston, Mass. 
R. U. PARKER, Acting Q. P. A., 
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out, but should be planted immediately 
while in a moist condition. 
The seed should be sown in well 
pulverized, rich loam soil in early spring. 
If hand cultivation is to be given, the 
seed may be sown in drills twelve to 
fifteen inches apart in a bed, but if horse 
cultivation is to be practised it should 
be sown in rows three and one-half feet 
apart. The seed should not be covered 
more than one half to three-quarters of 
an inch. A pound contains about 
twenty-eight thousand seed and is suffi¬ 
cient for a row nine hundred feet long. 
The seedlings will be large enough to set 
out in their permanent sites the follow¬ 
ing spring or fall. 
The method of management adopted 
in a plantation of locust largely deter¬ 
mines its usefulness and value. Thick 
planting should be the rule in order to 
force the tree into straight, tall growth. 
In most cases four by four or three feet 
are suitable distances. 
If the trees are planted in a solid 
block and surrounded by a few closely 
planted rows of older trees there will be 
no difficulty from sprouting. Sprouts do 
not grow where the ground is shaded. 
Every effort should be used to keep 
the trees in thrifty growth for the first 
twelve or fifteen years. Borers seldom 
injure the trees that are growing rapidly, 
but confine their attacks to those of less 
vigor. If damage from borers is appre¬ 
hended the trees should be cut for use 
before they cease rapid growth. By this 
method of cutting a crop of posts can be 
produced every ten or twelve years. 
The best result usually results when 
the locust is grown mixed with some 
other heavy-foliaged tree, as its own 
shade is not dense enough to keep out 
grass and w-eeds. As accompanying or 
nurse trees, the Osage orange, Russian 
mulberry, hardy catalpa and white elm 
do well, as they cast heavy shade and 
do not grow rapidly enough to overtop 
the locust. The associates need not 
occupy more than one-third of the spaces 
in the mixture. The locust is a good 
tree to plant with the black walnut where 
the latter is desired as the permanent 
stand. The two maybe planted alternate¬ 
ly in the rows. Within 15 years the locust 
may be cut for use as fence posts, leaving 
the black walnut for the final stand. 
The growth of the locust is very rapid, 
especially in rich soil, where during its 
early growth it makes an average annual 
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