Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 550
ear a large crop of cones,and about the first of October the seeds begin tofall from them and scatter themselves over theground; for every seed possesses a gauzy wingby which it is often carried a long distance afterit leaves the mother tree. Men gather the pine-cones while green, and later extract… … AT THIRTY YEARS THE PLANTATION BEGINS TO RESEMIILEA REAL FOREST. IT MAY NOW BE THINNED OUT AND AFEW TREES SOLD AS LUMBER OR CORD-WOOD. about 10,000 small trees, called seedlings. Whenthe seedlings are two years old they are usuallytransplanted, and at the end of another year ortwo they are ready to…
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