g HINTS ON PLANTING ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



of decaying vegetable matter, as rotten leaves, for 

 the immediate reception of the plants. 



Then, with the exception of such prepared sites, 

 plant the whole of the trenched ground somewhat 

 thickly with common evergreen trees and shrubs, for 

 the purpose of affording shelter to the ornamental and 

 permanent specimens subsequently to be placed there. 

 If the situation is very much exposed, and the soil 

 unfavourable, the trees planted for shelter should be 

 allowed to make one or two seasons' growth before 

 placing the permanent specimens. And, in the 

 meantime, they too should be prepared to meet the 

 difficulties of their intended new situations, by a course 

 of treatment, for which the following instructions are 

 offered: Procure some pieces of elm plank about 

 1^ inch square and nine inches long, also a quantity 

 of larch stakes about 1-| inch in diameter, and of the 

 same length with the pieces of elm, and split them 

 longitudinally. Then take four pieces of the elm, one 

 for each corner, and nail to them the pieces of larch, 

 leaving spaces about three-quarters of an inch between 

 each two, and one side, or rather the top, entirely 

 open. You have now the skeleton of a box, or, 

 perhaps, it might be properly called a crate, for the 

 reception of a plant, and the spaces between the bars 

 are to allow free egress to the roots. Prepare as 

 many crates as you intend removing plants to exposed 

 situations. Have ready some good turfy loam, with 

 which is mixed a little leaf-mould, fill the crates with 

 the compost, and place a plant in each, as in the 

 ordinary mode of potting. At first they should be 



