4 HINTS ON PLANTING ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



tion may reveal.* A judicious application of shelter, 

 with a discrimination in the choice of aspect, will do 

 much to modify the injurious tendency, and afford the 

 favourable points of climate in any given locality ; and 

 drainage, with cultivation, will surmount many diffi- 

 culties arising from an inferior soil. For there are 

 but few situations where draining, as a preliminary, or 

 as an adjunct to planting, will not be found highly 

 beneficial. 



The importance of a proper course of preparation 

 for, and subsequent attention to, young and newly 

 planted trees, is not sufficiently recognised by planters 

 generally, or, if recognised, is not practically demon- 

 strated. There are of course many situations in which 

 the most ordinary care, not to say neglect, will be 

 rewarded by great success. But such exceptions 

 should not be admitted as precedents, marking out a 

 course of procedure for all localities indiscriminately. 

 If two trees are planted, one on a bleak hill side, the 

 other in the rich deep soil of a sheltered valley, and 

 both receive similar attention, other circumstances 

 being equal, it is not probable that a like success will 

 attend both. Yet judging from the practice of many, 

 they do not seem to consider the necessary operations 

 to ensure success in planting, as of a character to 

 demand anything beyond the most ordinary attention. 

 A hole of barely sufficient size to contain the roots, 

 and a stake to support the stem if necessary, is all 



* The great changes which are kno\vn to he effected in the salubrity of 

 a climate, by cultivation on a large scale, are not lost sight of here, but 

 they are of so extended an application as scarcely to come within the 

 province of the present enquiry. 



