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some are dwarfed and weakly from the start. 

 Sickly babies should have the tenderest care, 

 but to feeble trees in their infancy, the Spartan 

 law should apply. They should be destroyed. 

 Having obtained the trees, we will not put 

 them in the ground like posts, but dig a fail 

 round hole, twice as large and twice as deep as 

 the roots seem to require. Many a sagacious 

 man saves ten or fifteen minutes in setting out 

 a tree, but loses half a dozen years in growth or 

 bearing. Slip-shod work is usually economical 

 after this style. In digging the hole, we will 

 put all the good surface earth on one side, and 

 the poor yellow subsoil on the other. The bot- 

 tom of the hole will be filled up with good black 

 soil, mixed with compost or well-rotted manure 

 If a lot of bones can be thrown in also, theii 

 gradual decay will be of great benefit. Set the 

 tree in the ground with roots well spread out, 

 just as deeply as it stood before it was taken up 



