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for weeks, and, if they are received in the fall, 

 even through winter, withoiit injury. Trees 

 heeled-in in the fall, should be put down quite 

 deep, and the tenderer sorts, especially if they 

 have come from southern nurseries, should 

 lie in a very sloping manner, having their 

 tops protected by coarse litter or straw. It is 

 still better to open a deep trench, in a perfect- 

 ly dry spot of which the texture admits of 

 easy filtration. Let the depth of the trench 

 he some three or four feet, and the width suf- 

 ficient to contain what trees you may have. 

 Place the trees, root and branch, horizontally 

 in the trench, filling in, among them, with 

 light sand or vegetable mould. After this, 

 cover the whole, to the depth of two feet, with 

 earth. In extremely cold latitudes, the trees 

 ought to be buried still deeper. 



Southern trees may also be kept through a 

 northern winter, by heeling them in in a cel- 

 lar. They may also be brought from the 

 south, early in the spring, and heeled-in in 

 a cellar, till the weather shall admit of putting 

 them in, out of doors; or, if well packed, they 

 may remain in packages in a cool dark cellar, 

 for two or three weeks, quite safely. South- 

 ern trees, excepting perhaps the pear, properly 



