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fl'ience upon the beautlfal developement of forest 

 tree.?, and care must he taken to plant only i.pon 

 eolls adaptoil to the tree pUmteil. Deeji alluvial 

 soils develop the elm to its greatest perfection, while 

 the hard maple will crown the rough hillside with 

 Bweet and dense shade. 



Some varieties of the oak, eiijoy a sandy and ex- 

 posed situation, while other spu-ies are not to be 

 persuaded to grow there, but will tlourish with great 

 beauty upon a moist bottom. These peculiarities of 

 species and varieties, have been very little dwelt 

 npon by writers, and, in fact, are scarcely known well 

 enough by any person to justily a very extended list 

 of sorts adapted to peculiar localities; but I am per 

 suaded that attention to the subject by planters, will 

 develop important facts; and a careful exercise of 

 taste in the selection of trees well adapted to the 

 place they occupy, will make a great diiference in the 

 appearance of our grounds, and in the satisfaction 

 with which the planter views his work of ten years 



The difficulty of removing some trees with success, 

 is greatly felt by some, and few men can be found 

 who can say that they have successfully transplanted 

 the oak, the walnut and the chestnut, from their na- 

 tive wood?-. This difficulty is partially overcome by 

 the nurserymen, who remove them when very young, 

 and sell small trees which can be removed safely. 

 But in spite of these improvements, the above men- 

 tioned trees will always be discarded by many plant- 

 ers, because they cannot readily be transplanted. 



The man who plants trees for ornaaient, should 

 carefully study not only the peculiarities of the 

 speciee, and the variety he is to plant, but also the 

 peculiarities of the individual tree. 



It is well known to about all persons, that the 

 trees they plant are raised from a seed. Now the 

 seedling trees, although alike in their family appear- 

 ance, differ greatly in size, thriftiness, size of foliage, 

 form and arrangement of branches, density or open- 

 ness of the head, &c. Some are upright, some 

 spreading, others drooping, and all coming under the 

 head of elm, or maple, or ash, &o. It is not enough 

 to secure the variety ; you must get a handsome tree 

 o-f the kind, to have the best success. 



The above remarks apply with equal and even 

 greater force to evergreens, which vary so much in 

 form and color, as to pass all the way from extreme 

 beauty to utter deformity, in the same patch of seed- 

 ling trees of one species and variety. 



Ornamental trees are not many of them budded 

 or grafted in the nursei'ies, except to perpetuate some 

 very desirable and peculiar individual, as, for instance, 

 the weeping ash, weeping mountain ash, &c., there- 

 fore, care should be exercised to select maples, elms, 

 &c., with reference to their appearance. Lindens are 

 uniform in appearance, becaused raised from layers, 

 and the horsecbestnut, although raised from seed, 

 seldom departs widely h-om a dense and globular 

 form. 



There ia a great evil under the sun in the care of 

 ornamental trees, which I must notice. 



Trees are planted and grow ; at first the desire to 

 secure shade and relieve the bare appearance of his 

 grounds, induces the owner to plant thickly; by de- 

 gress the trees become larger, and, perhaps, encroach 

 upon each other slightly, but the possessor of the 

 s"hade, walks beneath, and congratulates himself. If 

 any branches are in the way, he trims them ofi^ the 



lower branches become feeble, by reason of shade 

 and die off ; the?c arc removed succossivcly, until at 

 last the man wakes up to the fact that he has a good 

 many trees on a small lot, but not a good looking 

 one amongst them. The real object in planting, 

 namely, satisfaction in the beauty and usefulness of 

 the tree, is entirely lost. Nothing but timely thin- 

 ning out of ornamental trees, so that they each shall 

 have full room to develop their forms upon all sides, 

 will secure the plantation from ruin. 



How often do we see this lamentable lack of taste 

 and judgment, in our streets and front lots of good 

 dwellings. There is not this day one tree in twenty, 

 upon our best avenues, and in what are esteemed fine 

 places, but is injured before it has ten years growth, 

 by crowding upon some other tree or building. In 

 this city, so famed for rural improvements and shady 

 streets," what we need most, is a judicious culling 

 down of shade trees far more than further planting. 

 If some man, with the pen of a Downing, would 

 write down a multitude of trees which writers have 

 succeeded in getting planted, the benefit to taste sii>d 

 comfort would be immense. Shade is good to a cer- 

 tain extent, but the damp, dark and mouldy precints 

 of some of our rural residences, are an offence to gocrd 

 taste, good health, and the spirit of improvement 

 which ornamental planting should always promote.^ 

 H. E. JI. ^ 



SIT&IMEE AKD AUTUMN PLAHTmG. 



Messrs. Editors: — The months of August and 

 September are the preferable periods in the State of 

 New York, and in the States to the north of it, for 

 trausplating the following articles, and the months of 

 September and October for the States adjoining on 

 the south, as far as the Potomac, and the months of 

 October and November for the more southern States. 



Strawberriks. — These, if planted at periods above 

 stated, will produce a fair crop the ensuing summer. 

 They should be planted in beds of three feet wide, 

 with four rows of plants lengthwise, and at a foot 

 each way. This width will admit of all the fruit 

 being gathered from the sides. A path of about 

 fifteen inches wide should be left between the beds. 



Rhubarb, Asparagus, Horse-Radish, Sea Kale, 

 Globe Artichoke, and Patience Dock, the latter 

 the best of early greens, and very hardy and perma- 

 nent All these will, when planted thus early, be- 

 come well rooted and establistied before winter. 

 They should have frequent waterings during the first 

 two weeks after planting. 



Bulbous and Tuberous Flowers of all the hardy 

 species, such as the different varieties of Hyacinths, 

 Tulips, Lilies of all kinds, except the Speciosum 

 varieties, Crown Imperials, Fritillaries, Crocus, Single 

 and Double Narcissus, Polyanthus Narcissus, Jon- 

 quils, Gladiolus Communis, and other hardy varie- 

 ties, Snowdrop, Snowflake, Ornithogalum, Colchicnro, 

 Squills, Bulbous Iris, of different kinds, Allium, 

 Amaryllis aurea. Arum, Dens Canis, Calochortos, 

 Ran^iuculus, Anemone, Bulbocodium vernum, Con- 

 vallaria, Trillium, Uvularia, Oypripedium, Yellow 

 Aconite, and many other species, and all the magni- 

 ficent varieties ofHerbaceous and Shrubbery Peo- 

 nies. All these splendid Flowering plants, when 

 planted thus eariy, will become more vigorous, in- 

 crease more freely, and bloom with much greater 

 vigor. It is to be understood, that before planting 



