315 LIST OF TREES, &C. ECT. XIX. 



the care should be taken that can be in the business. 

 See section 10. But oaks succeed best without re- 

 moval, having a tap, or downright root, which is 

 frequently broke in taking up : All trees would pro- 

 bably thus come finer, if it was convenient to raise 

 them from seed. The consequence of preserving 

 the tap root has been suspected ; but it is certainly 

 Nature's direction, and thus we find, the tap of the 

 oak will make its way downward, in a direct line, 

 through the hardest soils. See page 84. 



Poplar to propagate by cuttings, see alder ; but 

 younger and smaller cuttings for this tree do better, 

 as those of one or two years old, and half a yard 

 long ; particularly the black poplar. , 



Walnut, when planted for timber, should be young, 

 and the tap root if possible preserved whole. The 

 black virginian grows more erect, but the other makes 

 the largest tree and best wood. The white Virginian 

 is the hickery nut. All these make the best trees, 

 when grown from seed without transplanting. 



Willow and sallow , to propagate by cuttings, see 

 alder. 



%* Of all the forest trees here mentioned, the 

 ash, the beech, the elm, and the oak, ara the prin- 

 cipal ; and to plant these, and others, is a work of 

 the most commendable, and eventually of the most 

 profitable kind. See pages 81, 118, 125, &c. 



II. 



LIST of large deciduous trees, considered chiefly 

 as ornamental, for pleasure grounds, &c. 



* Acacia, a triple thorned, fewer thorned, &c. s. I. c. su. July 



* Ash, Calabrian manna, and large flowering, s. gr. April 

 - weeping and variegated, wh. and yel. leaved, b. gr. 

 dwarf flowering (small white bunches) s. gr. May 



