New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-02
WHAT KNOW OF FARMING
Ry HORACE GREEl Ef'
XXlu.
..,,r TREE-PLANIlNG.

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',.of acse orly who are conscious 'lat 'n'S
.he sake % cot are not unwilling TO learn ven
-, t, fmid suggestions with I's"'" " Inv
Planting 7 to,clt \ ponnd or
fgrst seed rather late in the Spring
Sd,t,, = ncinr at uight-fall the httle COTTON
bao,,l ich hell it into pot Of boiling ""'c,' anu
1,tue e sccs steep and steam III the nag TIL ncN'
,ar,i,r when The seed was planted IN rows III "
oyl, b. lsr e. of poor old pastuTe-land' lhis
WAS m.aaRe: should have given that seeu inc
richest avail OF in my garden To say uo'"'ns
Of plautil t "a. early as ApIli ath NV 'o'"'"
came mp s.,a., and grew feebly that year Ho' ~
sr.ot # tbe may seeds that did not spIOut al all
sin. many cams mp and survived, and my place
tlis day tie r, ior Cor them. IL might nave o''"
s6ll uchcrhrd is.,sOnably known more.
IT, What void low advise as TO Locust ana
most other tr IL at the best seed be procured III
tbe Fall or 80 soon as il drops from the trees; that
,,rt of 10 i've sev0 II drills two feet apart with TWO
inches bel wee seeds in the drills and that the rlch-
ISL Of dry warm garden soil be devoted to TINS pui-
,ose lii a large box with nch loam' SUI Io'I
ounces Of seed into this, and set the poA III ooo
ar where frost does not enter and here let II re-
main till April; then take out the seed ana e'i III o
ycthcr and SOW in drills rs above ii some one WHO
cuts ocust during the Winter Spring will allow
- trace the smaller eul4dNt iVO'N i''''' -
made stumrs and cut or dig them up, cut fifty or
hundred pieces If root the size OF your finger each
IVA feet long and plant these, about May !, IN the
ploccs where You want IOcustS TO come forward
most rapidly Some of them may not grow, but
think many will and from all these sources, judge
that you VIII obtain a good supply OF young trees,
Let those You start from the seed get two years
growth before you take them up and set them where
Won want trees whether in your present woods IN
rugged rocky pastures the sides of steep ravlnes,
or around your buildings. You cannot fail to obtain
som, trees if y0u follow these directions.
Ill Begin early this Fan to gather Chestnuts,
Hickory Nuts Walnuts. White Oak Acoms &c. to
plant. Select the largest and finest nuts, giving
the preference to those which rpen and fall earliest
Keep them in cool damp earth in some barn or cellar
where rats and mice cannot reach them, and persist
in collecting till December Then plant part III
your garden or in any rich ground where they are
not lAelyo be disturbed letting the residue remain
in the boxes of moist earth where you first placed
them til early Spring then plant these, like the
former. in rows two feet apart, with six inches
between seed and seed in each row, and give the
rows careful culture for two years after which, set
them where you wish them to grow
/ venture to suggest that ne who has a rugged
stony hill or other lot which he wishes 10 surrender
to forest should plow it, # it can be plowed next
September or October; if too rocky TO be even i'm
perfectly plOwed dig up the earth with pick and
spade and it thickly with hickory nuts walnuts,
chesnutS locust and other tTeeSecds, expecting that
some viii be dug up and carried off by SPUR
rcs, &c, and that others viii fail to GERM
nate. Go over IT with hoes the ensuing
June or July, killing all weeds and other lmfes-
tations; and nearly year later repeat the opera
ticu taking up young trees from your garden or
uurserv and filing them in wherever there is ROOM
Plant tbickly in order TO force an upward rather
than q scraggv growth aud so that you may begin
10 cut out the superluOus saplngs for bean-poles,
hoop-poles &C. three or four years thereafter Cut
late in Winter or early in Spring so that the sumps
will each throw up two or mort shoots or sprouts,
which usually grow much faster than the original
tree did. And the process Of thinning may thus he
continued indefinitely while the chOccr trees are
allowed to attain their statcleSt proportions. And
thus rocky sterile hillside knoll may be made
IN Weld crop annually after the first two or three
years from planting while growing trees Of decided
yaluo. | Judge that almost any land within fifty
miles of a great city and not more than two miles
from railroad depot or from navicable water may
thus be made to good interest on SlUO per
acre after meeting all the cost of breaking up and
planting. Iconldently assert that many thousands
Of sterile, rocky acrCs. which now yield less than
$40 per acre annually in pastmagc, would net at
least double that sum to the Owner II wisely devoted
to forest trees.
have a hearty love of forests. They proner gentle
compauionship TO the thoughtful and rest to the
ovcrworkcd. fcvered brain. Our streams will be
fuller and less capucious, gales less destructive,
our climate less capnciOus when we shall have
rcclothed our rugged slopes and rocky crests with
trees. Timber grows yearly scarCer and dearer,
when it ought to be becoming more plentiful and
accessible aHd pOad be we devoted 10 trees all the
land which we cultivate at a loss fail to cultivate
at all. Let boys be melted to gather seeds and
plant nurseries; let young trees be bought by the
thousand where they aIc by the dozen, and let
~ all cooperate in covering unsightly rocks and
making glad oar waste places b. supc abundance
Of choice, thrifty, healthy trees
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