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Show LOCUST TREES FROM SEEDS As 8oon Plant Break Through Ground They Should B Given Cultivation and Irrigation. lily II a. l.uMlVKAH. (lr.t. Art itilluil CulU'Kv.t Any person who run secure need of black or honey locust cun readily grow Ms own trees of these two spo-ties. spo-ties. Seeds (hat have been kept dry, veil eight or ten years, will grow almost as readily as those that have In ii gathered hut one year. In either ease the seeds are so hard thai If planted dry. as one ould pens oi hi iiiis, many of them will full to germ-liiutu germ-liiutu ami all of them will he very slow. They should first he treated with hot liter, In ibe following mail' ner: Tor about one half iomid (if need plaee the seeds In any ean or Jar that will hold about one gallon and that will not he broken by hot water. Pom Hbout two or three quarts of hollltiR water Uon tin1 m-edH, -rover, and allow al-low to stand over night. When the water Is poured off. it will be found that many of the seeds have doubled In size sad heroine softcm-d. These should be taken out and may he planted Immediately, while those that remain hard should hu treated In the same maimer until all of them have swollen. l'lant In good gardeu soil. In rows about three feet apart, planting the seed about one inch apart, In the ease of the black lorust. and three Inches apart for the honey lorust. Cover the former twothlrds of an Inch, and th latter one lneh deep, and firm the soil upon them. As noon as the plants break through the ground they should he given the same cultivation und Irrigation Ir-rigation as a crop of corn. The young trees will probably need thinning, so as to make I hem about four to five Inches apart In the row. This will give much stronger seedlings than to allow them to grow much thicker. At the end of the growing season It is best to dig the young trees Just before be-fore the ground freezes and burj them In a well drained situation, covering cov-ering with at least six Inches of soil, first tying them Into bundles of 25 to no trees each. They ahouM he dug the following spring, In the latter part of March or the first of April, and planted In permanent quarters. |