THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



mulch or litter, would tend to prevent the 

 surface from cracking in parching droughts. 



Whether the plant may require supports, 

 will be determined by its size, and the ex- 

 posure or shelter of the situation. But plants 

 under ten feet, if treated in all respects as 

 above, will seldom be found to require them, 

 and so much the better for their future wel- 

 fare. Trees often receive much injury from 

 their supports, both by their rubbing, and by 

 bandages being tied too fast, or being neg- 

 lected to be cut. If, however, supporting be 

 found indispensably necessary, three poles 

 being set up in a triangular form, racked with 

 spars of wood at half their height to prevent 

 friction, bridled at top, and the stem of the 

 plant being fixed to the bridling, after having 

 been previously wrapped round with straw- 

 ropes or old matting, will, perhaps, be found 

 as good a method as any other. 



<2dly. FUTURE CARE 6f Hedge-row and 

 Detached trees after planting, until they are 

 well established and trained into proper form, 

 is a duty more expensive and necessary, in 

 proportion to their value, than that attending 

 close plantations. 





