NORTH FRANKLIN SOCIETY. £99 



be planted as near the top of the ground as may be ; soil should be 

 dry and warm ; be careful to mix the soil -with the small roots, 

 fibres, &c. This last spring I set out eighty-nine maples and all 

 of them lived and did well ; one elm, one mountain ash and thirteen 

 evergreens, such as spruce, hemlock and fir, of which eight lived. 

 One-hundred and four trees set, and ninety-nine alive, October 6, 

 1857. 



The above mode of transplanting I observed in setting out sixty 

 maples and two mountain ash, this last spring. Lost but two maples 

 and one ash, leaving fifty-nine trees alive, October 6, 1857." 



John R. True. 

 Freeman, October 6th, 1857. 



