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spring upward. More than this, if trees are taken up in the 

 spring, before the buds expand, and are transplanted at 

 once, the mutilated roots will heal and send out new root- 

 lets sooner than if they had been planted in autumn. Our 

 long experience is decidedly in favor of spring planting for 

 every thing that must be transplanted. But a far better 

 way is to plant the seed where trees are to grow, and thus 

 avoid transplanting. When trees are planted in autumn 

 the roots take no hold of the ground until the next spring. 

 Hence a crowning and unanswerable argument in favor of 

 planting in the spring of the year is, that it is far better for 

 trees or vines of any kind to have a vital connection with 

 the soil during the drying and cold weather, than for all 

 vital connection to be severed for from four to six months. 

 This fact alone is sufficient to show that spring planting is 

 preferable to autumn. But if trees can not be properly 

 managed in the spring, and if they can not be planted till 

 late in the growing season, it is better to plant in autumn. 

 We have observed that during several years past many 

 Western and North-western farmers have reported the loss 

 of thousands of apple-trees, all in consequence of being 

 planted in the spring. 



Double - planting Orchards. The practice with some po- 

 rn ologists, when they first commenced planting apple-or- 

 chards, was to set a row of peach-trees alternately between 

 the apple, in two directions, by which they were enabled to 

 plant out twice the number of peach-trees on a given area 

 as there were apple-trees. Then, by the time the apple- 

 trees had attained sufficient size to require the space occu- 

 pied by the peach-trees, most of the peach-trees would have 

 reached the limit of their existence, so that they could be 

 removed. The results were eminently satisfactory. 



The question is frequently asked, at the present day, 

 whether dwarf and standard pears, peaches, plums, or other 



