HINTS ON PLANTING ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



What is termed " dead'* shelter, i. e., close hedges, 

 reed fences, and similar expedients, is often employed 

 as temporary protection to young trees in exposed 

 places, but the advantages derived from such, to say 

 nothing of its many inconveniences, and its anything 

 but attractive appearance, is not nearly so great as 

 that arising from the employment of living trees. 

 The former is every day decreasing in efficiency, the 

 latter becoming more valuable. 



With due attention to the several points which have 

 been dwelt on, viz., draining, trenching, shelter, and 

 a proper selection of plants, aided by a thorough 

 system of subsequent management, success will be 

 attained in almost any situation, and under a great 

 diversity of circumstances. Failures in planting 

 oftener arise from an injudicious or imperfect course 

 of treatment, or from a bad selection of plants, than 

 from anything really antagonistic in the soil or 

 situation. 



PLANTING AMONGST OTHER TREES. 



It is often the object of proprietors to remove 

 woods which are composed of the ordinary indigenous 

 trees of the country, and to replace them with others 

 of an exotic and more ornamental character. But the 

 advantages of such existing woods are generally too 

 great to allow of their removal before others are pro- 

 vided to compensate their loss. 



The ordinary mode of planting to effect this is 

 generally productive of but feeble results, from the 

 system of operations being destitute of the real 



