ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



difficult to make live, unless they have the 

 sandy soil they love. In localities where the 

 soil is of clay, it will be rather a struggle 

 to get them well started. This done, how- 

 ever, they rarely die. 



In planting evergreens, it is a good 

 plan and well worth the trouble, to make a 

 hole about three feet square and put in the 

 bottom of this a good loam, to which a 

 quantity of sand and very old manure has 

 been added, then a layer of three or four 

 inches of earth; plant the trees and fill in 

 the hole with more earth of the same compo- 

 sition, watering well, and the tree is almost 

 sure to live and make rapid growth. A 

 little extra digging in making the hole to 

 receive the tree, so that the roots have en- 

 couragement to put forth into good loose 

 soil, will make the greatest difference in the 

 growth of the tree. 



Leaf-mould and old sods which have 

 been finely chopped with the spade are the 

 best fertilizers to use when planting ever- 

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