156 On planti7ig Fruit and Evergreen Trees, 



cedar trees in a shady yard in Philadelphia, and mentioning the 

 above fact, the owner informed me that they had been set out 

 on the 25th of April. My own experience enables me to con- 

 firm the fact as to the error of planting out cedar trees early in 

 the spring. In the beginning of April, in the year 1796, I pro- 

 cured from Red Bank in New Jersey, a great number of young 

 cedars, and planted rliem on the opposite shore in front of the 

 dwelling-house at the Pennsylvania Lazaretto, on State Island, 

 where T then resided, but not one lived, while many other trees 

 put out at the the same time grew well. M.] 



