122 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER, 



SECTION V. 



On PLANTING ; the proper Season and Manner of per- 

 forming THAT Operation. 



1st. THE PROPER SEASON for Planting, may 

 generally be, from the first of November to 

 the middle or end of March, according to the 

 forwardness of the spring. This latitude is 

 granted on the presumption that the scene of 

 Planting is extensive ; in which case, every 

 favourable opportunity is to be embraced, 

 that the whole may be completed in good 

 time ; observing to plant the dry, elevated 

 parts in the early, and the more humid and 

 loamy, in the latter part of the season. 



This precaution becomes necessary for two 

 reasons : first, that the trees planted in the 

 dry, elevated parts may reap the advantage 

 of the winter rains, put forth fibres early in 

 the spring, and be better enabled to endure 

 the early summer drought, which is so fatal 

 to new planted trees on a dry soil, and ele- 

 vated situation; and secondly, that those 



