taken up, properly forwarded, and properly 

 treated when received, are not much inferior 

 to trees which are grown here. Those which 

 are generally brought here, have been raised 

 under high cultivation; and the purchaser 

 not keeping up the same forcing culture, the 

 trees have languished and died. Thousands 

 of fine southern trees have also been lost, by 

 other kinds of erroneous treatment which they 

 have received, before and after coming into 

 the purchaser's possession. 



We may add, here, in this connection^ 

 that a root of a tree may be weakened by ex- 

 posure, as well as by diminishing its size ; 

 and, therefore, a regard should be had to both 

 these conditions, when we head-in its top, 

 to restore a balance of power between the root 

 and branch. 



