table trees, the balance being left to grow into larger trees. In that way a 
crop can be harvested in from two to four years after planting the small trees. 
The growth of the trees should not be forced artificially. A Christmas 
tree with a long annual growth is too open to be desirable. 
If a plantation is made within a reasonable driving distance of a large 
city an additional revenue can be realized by selling the trees on the stump, 
letting the customer pick out his own tree. A freshly cut Christmas tree will 
last much longer and is much more fragrant than the trees sold as a rule in 
the larger cities which have sometimes been cut two months and more. A 
little judicious advertising, playing on the sentiment of cutting one’s own 
Christmas tree, will often bring excellent results and will incidentally give 
a much better return than the selling of the small trees at wholesale. Whole- 
sale prices vary with locality and naturally with quality of the trees, from forty 
cents to ninety cents per tree. Table trees eighteen inches to two feet, with 
roots, sell at about seventy-five cents each, at wholesale. The cost of the small 
trees used for planting is around five cents each and the cost of planting gen- 
erally less than one cent apiece, with little care and expense required after 
the trees are planted until they are harvested. The farmer and land owner 
who has some unused land might well plant that land to Christmas trees and 
make it the most profitable part of his farm. 
SMALL POTTED EVERGREENS FOR SALE 
AT ROADSIDE STANDS 
The love of trees is inherent to most of us. There is something about a 
small tree which appeals to our love of nature, and especially so to those of 
us who have to take their out of doors in homeopathic doses. 
Many people want to take home something to remind them of their trip 
into the country and what is there more enjoyable than a small tree which 
can be kept in the house during the winter or used in a window box and set 
out on the lawn in the early spring. 
Here is a field open to the farmer which should prove both enjoyable and 
profitable. Small evergreen seedlings can be bought from The Keene Forestry 
Associates, Keene, N. H., at from one cent to ten cents each. These small 
trees can be planted by the farmer into nursery rows and after making one or 
two years growth they can be planted in small wooden pails. Or, the trees 
can be carried over three or four years for larger specimen trees for orna- 
mental planting. 
Small wooden pails cost from thirty to forty: cents each. They can be 
stained a light green at practically no cost at all. Any good wood dye of a 
dark green, which can be diluted with wood alcchol, will answer the purpose. 
The stain can be thinned at the rate of two parts alcohol to one part stain. 
In this manner one gallon of stain costing two to three dollars can be thinned 
