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it is simply "drawn" {arrachce a racines nues) before trans- 

 planting. 



Upon this result M. Carriere remarks that it is sufficient to 

 show what is the most economical and consequently the 

 most advantageous when work has to be done on a large 

 scale, from which point of view alone he thinks it necessary 

 to look at the question. This is very different from the 

 small operation of making an ornamental plantation. In the 

 latter case expense is of little consequence ; in the former it 

 is of the first importance. This consideration touches the 

 root of the inquiry. Can, he inquires, anybody afford in ex- 

 tensive works the care, the cost, and the frequent watering 

 which M. Labarre gave his trees ? Are we then, he adds, to 

 jump to the conclusion that autumn planting is ahvays better 

 than that of spring, or that, as M. Labarre contends, it is 

 always best to plant in spring. "Both conclusions would be 

 equally erroneous ; for unless we take into account all the 

 different circumstances which attend such an operation, and 

 which may lead to the adoption of one season rather than 

 another, we do nothing worth doing. To think of submit- 

 ting all trees, however much they may resemble each other, 

 to the same kind of cultivation, would be like a doctor's giv- 

 ing the same dose and the same drug to all his patients, with- 

 out paying attention to their different temperaments." He, 

 however, insists upon the general fact that autumn planting, 

 or that loJiich takes place at the ejid of summer, is the most 

 advisable. 



" In places near the sea, where the sky is often overcast 

 and the air is almost always saturated with humidity, and 

 the earth is consequently always damp, it is easy to under- 

 stand that there may be some advantage in planting in March 

 or April, or even in May, that is to say, at a time when the 

 air has warmed the soil. The same may be conceded of 

 countries where the winters are long, or where heavy au- 

 tumnal rains are constant, for in such places the roots may 

 rot before getting hold of the ground, and trees may perish 

 from want of power to vegetate before the arrival of bad 

 weather." 



