16 HINTS ON PLANTING ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



purpose of admitting as much light as possible, and 

 to prevent drip, which is highly injurious to most 

 young trees. To admit all the light possible, every 

 means should be employed that suggests itself. With- 

 out a large amount, growth will be slender and 

 etiolated, and if the trees are allowed to attain a con- 

 siderable size in that unhealthy state, they will be 

 wholly unfit to dispense with the assistance of the 

 surrounding shelter. 



In preparing the situations for planting, all roots 

 met with should be destroyed. Little or no damage 

 will result to the trees to which they belong. Nor 

 would it be of any moment if such should be expe- 

 rienced by them, as they are ultimately to be removed 

 altogether. 



Nor must attention flag after the trees are 

 planted. The soil about them should be kept stirred 

 and free from weeds, and the encroachments of the 

 roots from those surrounding them prevented by 

 yearly cutting off with the spade such as may have 

 found their way to the newly prepared soil. But as 

 the young trees progress and push their roots to its 

 full extent, any further operation with the spade must 

 of course be discontinued. And by that time, if 

 previous directions have been attended to, they will 

 be in a position to dispense with such assistance. But 

 during the several seasons which must necessarily 

 elapse before they have attained that extent, no en- 

 croachments from their nurses must in any way be 

 permitted. Every branch or tree that would seem to 

 retard their progress, must be instantly removed. 



