Ae. block of taxus pictured on the title page is part of a 
twenty-five acre field on a hillside in Hopkinton. The pond is used 
for irrigation. In the background are fields of buckwheat in full 
flower which we sow and plow in to condition the land for future 
plantings. 
Large-scale production on about two hundred acres under soil 
conservation principles is necessary to keep the cost of the indi- 
vidual plants down and to assure vigorous specimens for our cus- 
tomers. With advice from the United States Soil Conservation 
Service we are planting our fields on the contour, steering runoff 
water into grass terraces and saving this water in ponds for sum- 
mer use. 
