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this yard has been raised by earth from the bottom 

 of the cellar, and as the bottom conies out last this 

 top soil is apt to be too poor to grow even a fair 

 crop of weeds. ' 'Whatever is worth doing is worth 

 doing well 1 ' and it is better to plant but a few trees 

 and do it well than to plant many, half do it and 

 lose the most of them. 



In making these suggestions, and giving the 

 directions that will follow, it is assumed that the 

 tree is a good one and that the nurseryman has done 

 his duty, which is not by any means the case always. 

 Sometimes trees are sent out in such bad con- 

 dition that no treatment could possibly save them. 



If every one who reads the foregoing would heed 

 it carefully, and follow the directions, there would 

 be little loss sustained on account of the planter, 

 but we feel like repeating, in order to give empha- 

 sis to this matter of protecting the roots of ever- 

 greens while out of the ground. 



It seems that the ordinary planter does not 

 believe that the evergreen grower has not exagger- 

 ated in the requirement of absolute protection. 



When he says that under some conditions an 

 evergreen will be killed by an exposure in the sun 

 of ten seconds or less, it is not thought that it is to 

 be taken literally, but to mean that more care must 

 be exercised in handling them than the ordinary 

 fruit trees. It does mean literally just that, and if 

 the instructions are followed, thousands of trees 

 will be saved where they are lost by pursuing a 

 less rigid attention to the instructions. 



