"plant The White Pine."

Mr. E. F. Brockway hasgood words in "The Western Rural" for white I pines aud evergreens in general, which he began planting on his bare farm in 1856. What he has. küirned of their rapidity of growth, benefits for beauty and use, and means of propagatiou makes a valuable contribution to the curren t literatura of agricultare: "I planted white p'mu with a lavish hand because they were cheap. 1 brought them from open clearing in Wisconsin, but also bought and planted Scotch pine, Austrian pine, Br, redar, Norway pinea planted twentyeight years ago are fifty feet high and twenty-four indios in diameter, two ftet above the cround, and twice the si.e at least of the Scotch piueor Norway spruce which are the next in si.e. I am still planting evergreens and urging othei's to do so. I would plant for Bake of variety all kinds, but as a general tree for wind break, ornament or future use as lumber I would plant white pine, because it is the most eertain to grow, erowa the most rapidly and is the most beautiful of th pina family. lts delicate green needies and i stately iorm n myestimation place it as the king of evergreens." "Our home is surrounded by .'i.OOO evergreens mostly white i)ino planted trom sixteen to twen t y years ao. i Last evening there was sleet duiing the nigbt. Today there is a hUh wind; their linbs droop nearly to the ground; their topa bend low with the weight of ice and snow; we hear the wind but do not feel it, and our home is 'an hiding place from the wind and. a covert from the tempest.' Liko a great wall they proteo t us and our cattle from the fíe ree storm wlure onlv twenty years ago grew wild gra8. There bas been a general impression that the pines are costly and that only the wealthy can aflore) them a:id Uien only for ornament. This is nl! a rnistake. N liite pine is chi Thpy should not, cost to excocd ten dollars per thousand, or, freighl anH all, one-and-a-quarter cents eacli, out1 foot high." "Mine do not cost me more thaii that. 1 ani not a practical nui"8eryman but would nor. heeitate to turnish them by the thousand in anlimited numbers at that price. 1 plant them in nursery iorm al iiist three and one-half feet apart, and om foot in the rows, plough as corn. The first tliree years one thousand can Uput on a quarter ofan acre. In three or four years you have beautiful little bushy trees suchas you pay at the nursery twenty-flve to fifty cents for. Then transplant for wind breuk or ornament wherever wanted. 'i'his has been iny plan and experience for thirty years. Then why not plant more 'evergreens? The maple grove? will soon be gone. The willow is nol desirable. Iwish every farmer in all the West would plant at least 1 white pine next spring. Tiie wholi country would b botter and more beautiful "