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Title: Reading Nursery : (catalog) 1875.
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Reading Nursery (Reading, Mass.) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Catalogs Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs
Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Reading Nursery
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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generation. At present, 4 lb. packages, often 12 to 18inches long, may go anywhere and with the rapidity of letters and newspapers. It requires some skill and experience to properly pack plants, but there is no mystery about it.Oil paper is laid down, the roots of the plants compressed, damp moss laid among and all over theroots, wrapped around with the oil paper, then oyer all with tough dry paper, and this secured bysmall cords. Then with stamps equal to 2 cents for each 4 ounces (as the law is at present), andproper direction, the work is done. When deliverer1, at the mail the shipper has done his duty,and cannot take further responsibility. Notice and bills go forward by the same mail. Trees thus transported may grow to giants in size ; others may become fruitful, or do their part asornamental trees. Seeds ! why what is there that did not grow from a seed? By mail they are sownbroadcast over our extended country. CATALOGUE OF READING NURSERY, MASS —J. W. MANNING, PROPRIETOR. 35
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LILIL31 ATJRATUM. FOREST PLANTING. We desire to see the artificial planting of Forest Trees on thousands of acres of the comparativelyuseless lands of New England, and especially we hope to see some telling results of this effected in ourday in Massachusetts. See how shade trees in streets, and ornamental and even fruit trees in ordi-nary grounds, hare grown in ten to twenty years. Examples are in all possible directions. The barrenfields and bleak hill-sides can be clothed with Evergreens, in variety—Pine, Spruce, Fir, Hemlock,Larch—and of the deciduous trees, Chestnut, Maple, Oak, Walnut, Bass, Ash, &c; and this may bedone with ordinary farm help. So much has been written on this subject, that it is hard to con-dense or abridge, and so many are the results they encourage. The most trenchant facts of treeplanting for forests are found in the West, published by gentlemen whom we well know. We will here record our own experience. In 1858, 3 feet trees of Norway Spruce and Scotc

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