. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 170 AMERICAN FORESTRY ceed to fight for the ground that they originally owned in entirety, and they push their young ones out on all sides. Young white pines seem to thrive under any quantity of shade (I have one that has reached its thirty-fifth year growing within two feet of a huge chestnut oak which never gives it a scrap of sun- light) , so that once a ravine full of them gets a foothold this forest is bound to spread and grow. Here is a good place to plan to fill up gaps with what is known as underplanting. Do not do this at regular spacings and
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 170 AMERICAN FORESTRY ceed to fight for the ground that they originally owned in entirety, and they push their young ones out on all sides. Young white pines seem to thrive under any quantity of shade (I have one that has reached its thirty-fifth year growing within two feet of a huge chestnut oak which never gives it a scrap of sun- light) , so that once a ravine full of them gets a foothold this forest is bound to spread and grow. Here is a good place to plan to fill up gaps with what is known as underplanting. Do not do this at regular spacings and intervals but select, rather, favorable locations where the young trees get good soil and lots of sunlight, without any unneces- sarily expensive work with the axe in clearing away overhead thickets. The best tree for underplanting is the state or forestry company's nursery four-year transplant, and it is best planted on the mound system, , with a shallow hole in the soil, the roots spread in a little cone of rich top-soil and finally the basic mineral soil and forest leaves banked around the tree covering the root collet. The root soil should be firmly packed with the feet and the mound soil tamped with the back of the spade. With the help of some underplanting and judicious assistance to every young specimen of natural white pine found on the area you will soon have in process of formation a natural white pine section which will vie with your planted sections out in the brambly pasture. I have always a penchant for the nut-bearing forest trees with which nature has so generously endowed us. Not all nor by any means the most valuable products of a forest are its lumber tallies. Maple sugar, hickory nuts, seeds and acorns at the prevailing market prices for seeds for nursery use, and tanning bark all pay well, much better per acre of ground than lumber, and none of them should be neglected on the small forest of the country estate. Where you will find one shagbark hick- or
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