PLANTING IN EXPOSED SITUATIONS. 7 



to be planted are concerned, will be unnecessary, 

 while in others of a very inferior character, both a 

 liberal manuring and cultivation will be requisite to 

 bring the soil into a condition for their reception, with 

 fair prospects of success. The amount of manure and 

 subsequent cultivation will, of course, be given in pro- 

 portion as circumstances may seem to demand them. 



But there is an unhappy propensity prevalent to 

 consider a tree as destitute of the ordinary wants of 

 plants in general, and to believe that if it is provided 

 with sufficient soil to cover its roots, no matter what 

 the quality may be, it cannot possibly fail to thrive; but, 

 on the contrary, care and attention are as imperative in 

 preparing the soil for trees, and will be followed with 

 equally satisfactory results, as in the treatment of any 

 other of our cultivated plants. 



An important auxiliary to success in planting, in the 

 kind of situation we are at present treating on, is 

 shelter. Prom its absence alone may be attributed 

 many failures. The conditions which plants enjoy while 

 in the sheltered nursery-beds are of so opposite a cha- 

 racter to what they experience when removed to open 

 situations, exposed to drying winds and scorching 

 suns, and wholly destitute of shelter, that frequent 

 failures, where no precautionary measures are taken, 

 will not upon reflection cause much surprise. 



The preliminaries of draining and trenching having 

 been properly attended to, and the soil in a condition 

 to receive the plants, and the exact spot for each 

 permanent tree determined on, mix in the site for each, 

 if the state of the soil seems to demand it, a portion 



