This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V29", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
A discussion of some length is going on in our exchanges between Mr. Fernow, Mr. Douglas and the Agricultural Editor of the Press, as to the best kinds of trees to plant in American forestry. The questions involved are whether American are better than European trees - whether the White or the Scotch pine should be planted - whether seeds from one locality are better than from another locality. We have been over these subjects so often that our views ought to be well known, and we should not here revert to it only that our attention has been directed to it by one of the parties to the contest. The only comment we can make is, that it is a subject of too general a character to be decided in special articles. What purposes the timber is to be applied to will decide the kind; soil, latitude, and altitude is another element to be considered, and localities from which seed should be preferred, can come under no rule but " circumstances".
Fairview: Residence of Edward Weston, Yonkers, N. Y.
 
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