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And this matter of heeling-in, unless 

 performed with nearly as much care as 

 when done in the fall, as above de- 

 scribed, might almost as well not be 

 done at all. Planters do not seem to 

 appreciate the importance of careful 

 heeling-in, and it is by reason of the 

 want of care just here that many trees 

 fail to grow, fail even to put forth at 

 all, and the unlucky nurseryman who 

 supplied the trees is blamed for sending 

 dead trees. The truth is that the trees 

 dried up because the soil was not in 

 close contact with the roots when in the 

 trenches. Meanwhile the season has 

 been advancing, and by the time the 

 trees are permanently planted the spring 

 rains are over, the weather has become 

 warm, not to say hot, the trees are sud- 

 denly forced into full leaf before the 

 roots have been able to throw out suf- 

 ficient rootlets to supply the requisite 

 amount of moisture from the soil, and 

 the trees suffer less or more in con- 

 sequence, according as the summer may 

 eventually prove dry and hot, or moist 

 and cool. On the other hand, those that 

 were procured in the fall, and set out per- 

 manently as early as the season would 

 admit, put forth their leaves slowly, the 

 roots are given ample time to take hold 

 of the soil, and thus enabled to supply 

 the leaves with moistui'e as fast as re- 

 quired, so that the trees grow without 

 check. 



Though the reasons in favour of 

 taking up trees in the fall and treating 

 them in the manner indicated are as 

 cogent, and more so than has been 

 stated, it is perhaps well that those who 

 dislike to take much pains to do well 

 what they attempt to do, will not 

 hastily adopt these suggestions ; for 

 unless the fall heeling-in is carefully 

 done, unless a well drained spot is 

 selected, and after the heeling-in or 

 temporary planting is completed, the 

 ground be left in such shape as to keep 

 excess of water away, unless care be 



taken that no field-mouse harbors are 

 near, and unless the trees be well 

 sheltered from the fierce winter winds, 

 the trees might better be left in the 

 nursery, and run all the risks, and 

 undergo all the comparative disad- 

 vantages of spring planting. But there 

 may be some who are willing to take 

 the requisite pains to secure the re- 

 sultant advantages ; it is a great grati- 

 fication to those who endeavor to impart 

 to others the results of years of 

 observation and experience to believe 

 that there are even a few who will be 

 profited. For these few the foregoing 

 has been written. W. 



" EXAMPLES OF EVERGREEN 



GROWING." 



Copied from a Report made to Mr. Phipps, ChieJ Forester 

 for Ontario. 



You will now allow me to give you a 

 few very encouraging examples of ever- 

 green growing that have been made 

 in this section, and of the beneficial 

 results experienced. A few days ago 

 I and my esteemed "better-half" 

 went over to Mr. James Bissel's 

 pretty place, being about a half mile 

 north of the village of Thedford, on the 

 fourth concession of Bosanquet, and a 

 station on the G. T. R. On a very 

 showy place beside the public road, and 

 about ten rods from it on the bank of a 

 deep ravine Mr. Bissel placed his 

 dwelling and home gardens. On the 

 north and west sides of the home and 

 garden spot he planted a belt of Can- 

 adian white pine (Pinus strobus), on the 

 6th of May, 1876, or eight years ago. 

 He went to the adjacent pine openings 

 and took up with the best of care 

 a quantity of fine young thrifty trees, 

 about six feet in height, and care- 

 fully and as quickly as possible trans- 

 planted them around his lot on the sides 

 indicated, in one continuous row about 

 six feet apart. It was a grand success, 

 and the trees grew without much diflS.- 



