. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. nt oflight for their full development. Hence ingrouping, the latter must be such as willalways keep even pace with or outgrow, theformer, or if they fall behind, they must beprotected against the former, by cuttingthese back or else they might as well be re-moved themselves, before they are crowdedto death. There is one other consideration in select-ing for a plantation. Favorable forest con-ditions means a shaded soil. Hence thelarger quantity of trees should consist ofthe densely-fol
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. nt oflight for their full development. Hence ingrouping, the latter must be such as willalways keep even pace with or outgrow, theformer, or if they fall behind, they must beprotected against the former, by cuttingthese back or else they might as well be re-moved themselves, before they are crowdedto death. There is one other consideration in select-ing for a plantation. Favorable forest con-ditions means a shaded soil. Hence thelarger quantity of trees should consist ofthe densely-foliaged kinds, which preservefavorable forest conditions. The Cotton- wood, the ^sh, the Black Walnut, theLocust, the Birches and the Oaks are treeswhich soon show a thin foliage; theyshould, therefore, always form the smallerportion of the growth; the Beech, the Box-elder, the Elm, the Black Cherry, Sprucesand Cedars are of the densely foliaged kinds,and may therefore, form the bulk of aplantation. The named rules for mixing andgrouping in forest planting have beenevolved from long experience and, by fol-.
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