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Next, let one person hold the bundle on end, 

 the roots resting upon a bass-mat. Sprinkle 

 among and around the roots, a mixture of 

 moss and wet straw ; then tie, or sew the 

 matting over them, so as to completely pro- 

 tect them from exposure. The remainder of 

 the bundle may be covered with rye straw 

 laid longitudinally and bound around it with 

 twine or old ship-yarn ; or the entire package 

 may be sewed up, like the roots, in bass-mats. 

 When trees are to be sent a very great dis- 

 tance, and of course are to be out of the 

 ground a long while, their roots, after being 

 immersed in the clay water, are suffered to 

 get dry, and then the trees are packed imme- 

 diately in boxes, and the interstices among the 

 branches and roots are filled with dry moss. 

 Trees are very successfully brought across 

 the Atlantic in this way. It ought to be borne 

 in mind, that it is death to the roots of a tree 

 to suffer them to freeze, out of the ground, and 

 that it is injurious to allow them to get quite 

 dry, in the air. Either exposure is entirely 

 fatal to the class of evergreens. 



Where trees are sent only two or three days' 

 journey, their roots may be packed in wet 

 moss. Scions may be packed in boxes of 

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