12 HINTS ON PLANTING ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



than to beautify the places they occupy. Nor do 

 matters often assume a more cheerful aspect with those 

 which survive to the following season. Sometimes a 

 feeble attempt at vegetation is perceived, but it too 

 often proves an expiring eifort. Many will linger on 

 for years, and a few ultimately succeed. But not only 

 would time and labour have both been economised, but 

 the desired result have been more fully arrived at, by 

 adopting the apparently slower means of employing 

 young trees, and taking the necessary precaution to 

 ensure their success. 



There are, of course, many situations, where large 

 trees can not only be planted with perfect safety, but 

 where it will be highly requisite to do so, and w^here 

 no risk will attend their removal, if ordinary precau- 

 tions are taken. It is in open and exposed situations 

 that we are endeavouring to show the inexpediency of 

 employing them. 



For several years after planting, the soil about the 

 trees should be frequently stirred, all weeds destroyed, 

 and every obstruction to their progress removed : and 

 as those employed for shelter encroach upon the per- 

 manent specimens, they should be curtailed, and, when 

 necessary, wholly removed ; in fact, their removal 

 should be effected before they encroach. By thus 

 progressively destroying the shelter, sometimes a few 

 branches, and occasionally a whole tree, as circum- 

 stances seem to demand, the change is gradually pro- 

 duced and no injurious check results to the remaining 

 plants. Of course the shelter from the boundaries of 

 the groups, and from the most exposed situations, will 



