60 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



less expensive to carry to a distance seedling, 

 than transplanted trees. 



But, if the soil whereon the trees are to be 

 planted be bad, or essentially different from 

 that I am about to describe, and if the situa- 

 tion be bleak, and exposed to violent winds, 

 then I should conceive the attempt to rear 

 nursery, clean, healthy, and well-rooted, op- 

 posed to common sense. 



Are not care and attention necessary in 

 fearing all infants, whether animal or vege- 

 table? Are not some animals more tender, 

 and, while in infancy, reared with more dif- 

 ficulty, than others ? Do not some animals, 

 which with difficulty are reared in infancy, 

 afterwards become robust, and capable of en- 

 during the grea/test hardships? 



The comparison holds with respect to 

 plants. Are the Ash, the Beech, the Birch, 

 the Elm, the Larch, and the Oak, reared in 

 infancy with equal ease ? Do they not, if 

 properly treated, all equally flourish after- 

 wards on the mountain, in the vale, where 

 soil is hardly found, and where it is found 

 in abundance ? Do we sow seed in sand, 

 gravel, clay, the crevice of a rock, on the 



