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planting. These should be laid in baskets, and their roots 

 covered with moss. 



When plants arrive from a trade nursery from a distance, 

 they must usually be similarly treated. But sometimes they 

 will arrive in a frost. In such a case, if the frost look like 

 lasting, they should be unpacked and placed in a barn or 

 cellar, and their roots covered with wet moss and straw. The 

 frost must be kept from them at all costs. If they were not 

 unpacked they would probably become heated, and thereby 

 be injured. 



If they have been unduly long in arriving after they 

 were dispatched, or if they appear to have been tampered 

 with, they should be signed for, at the railway office, as 

 " damaged." 



It may not be out of place to state that, when plants are 

 brought from a trade nursery, they should be carefully chosen, 

 and they should be inspected in the nursery, if possible, at 

 the end of the summer, when the leaf is still on. A few 

 should be dug up, and their roots carefully examined, and 

 their age and treatment noted. 



In some cases it would pay to send the head wood- 

 man to superintend the raising and dispatch of the 

 plants. 



SOME NOTES ON THE METHODS OF PLANTING 

 IN PARTICULAR CASES. 



It has already been noticed, that the planting up of maiden 

 land is attended with far greater risks and more expense 

 than the planting of land from which a good crop of timber 

 has just been removed. 



Whenever planting is done on land with a surface cover- 

 ing of rank grass, it will be imperative to use larger plants 

 than should usually be used where the surface covering is 

 of short growth, and such planting, with large plants, will 

 necessitate planting them in pits. But, often, it will be 

 preferable to plough the land, and plant smaller trees in holes 

 made with a planting spike. 



On heather land, all that is usually required is to burn 



