Show Vondcrijllt Planting Trees on His Estate One hundred and twenty acres have been plowed up and planted with white pines which have been arranged in rows seven feet apart with a space of five feet between the trees in the same row This makes 1200 trees to the acre Theyoung trees are from fifteen to eighteen inches iii height and are obtained from a nursery nurs-ery near Chicago The white pines which have been set out on the slopes where the timber has been cut down take one i year to root themselves firmly in the soil The second year they grow about I one foot higher and every succeeding year they receive nn additional upward I growth of three feet or more In three years from the time of planting they will I be at least six feet in height and in this 11 climatewill attain a maximum height of 150 feet The idea in planting them so closely together is to make them grow I j I very tall and prevent them from putting I I forth branches near the ground One thousand acres are yet to be planted but by the time Mr Vanderbilts mansion is ready for occupation the whole mountainside mountain-side will be covered with tjenso woods The sameness of the timber land will be relieved by planting many different kinds o f trees at the base of the hills and along j the drives Asheville N C Citizen t tjeaisMtuit |