TREES 



I have always preferred to plant decid- 

 uous trees in the Spring, and have had 

 extraordinary success. The hole to receive 

 the trees must be deeper and larger than the 

 roots, and in the bottom should be placed a 

 quantity of well-rotted manure, which must 

 be covered with about four inches of good 

 earth free from lumps and stones. Then 

 set the tree, which one man should hold 

 upright, while another, after spreading out 

 the roots carefully, shovels in the earth, 

 which should be top soil, well pulverized. 

 When the hole is about half filled in, turn 

 on the water and thoroughly wet the ground 

 below and all about the roots. The rest of 

 the earth can then be filled in and pounded 

 down, and the ground around the tree cov- 

 ered with a mulch of coarse manure. If the 

 weather is dry, the tree must be well watered 

 twice a week and the earth soaked to the 

 roots; the tree will then be quite sure to live. 



When visiting recently in a beautiful coun- 

 try town not far from New York, where 

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