Excerpt from The Forest Tree Culturist: A Treatise on the Cultivation of American Forest Trees, With Notes on the Most Valuable Foreign SpeciesThousands of men are toiling this day to lay up wealth for their children, when if they would invest a small amount in land and then plant a few acres Of our best forest trees, their money would grow into a fortune by the time their children had grown into manhood. To some this may appear visionary, but the writer has lived long enough to see trees grow from saplings that would hardly bear his weight at ten years Old, up to great trees two feet in diameter, and he has scarcely passed the half-way house of three-score and ten.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.