OBSERVATIONS ON THE" % 



South of New- York, the Fall season is preferable only for 

 the Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry, Quince, and all other trees 

 of Northern latitude j whereas, the Spring is to be preferred 

 for the Peach, Apricot, Nectarine, and Almond, which for 

 the reasons before stated, might, during severe Winters, 

 suffer from the intensity of the frosts. Still I do not mean 

 to assert, that trees of those kinds are certain to be injured 

 by the Winter, as in very many seasons they are not in the 

 least affected ; still they are exposed to vicissitudes which 

 may or may not occur. Many gentlemen, however, of ex- 

 cellent judgment, make their plantations in the Autumn, 

 which only serves to prove, that even in the most intelligent 

 minds, a diversity of opinion exists. 



"TREES, &c. ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT THE PLACE OP DES- 

 TINATION. As soon as the trees arrive at the place where 

 they are to be planted, let a trench be dug in cultivated 

 ground, the bundle unpacked, and the roots well wet, and 

 immediately covered with earth in the trench, observing to 

 make the earth fine that is spread over them, so as not to 

 leave vacancies for the admission of air to the dry roots, it 

 having been found by experience that the thriftiness of trees 

 the first year after transplanting, depends much on the fine 

 fibres of the roots being kept moist, and not suffered to dry 

 from the time they are taken up until they are replanted ; 

 their increase, therefore, must depend principally on the 

 subsequent management on their arrival at the place of des- 

 tination : for if, when the bundles are unpacked, the trees 

 are carelessly exposed to drying winds, the young fibres of 

 the roots must perish, and the trees, if they live at all, 

 cannot thrive the first season, as they can receive little or 

 no nourishment until these fibres are leplaced. 



"To CAUSE THE TREES TO THRIVE. The ground u he re 

 they are planted must be kept cultivated ; young trees will 

 not thrive if the grass be permitted to form a sod around 

 them, and if it should be necessary to plant them in grass 

 grounds, care must be taken to keep the earth mellow and 

 free from grass for three or four feet distant around them, 



