120 PLANTING. 



best month of the year to plant holly, and when the 

 soil is too dry water it. 



6. All large size evergreen trees and shrubs planted 

 to endure the winter and spring winds should be well 

 secured against the wind shaking them. It is the 

 motion caused by the wind, rather than the intensity 

 of the frost, that browns and withers the plants. 



7. Where watering is required, it is better to give 

 a large supply twice a-week than smaller quantities 

 oftener. 



8. The size of the tree and capacity of the roots for 

 deriving food from the soil should be well considered, 

 and the deficiency of plant-food supplied by either 

 adding new and better soil, or breaking up and ren- 

 dering the natural soil suitable for the sustenance of 

 the plant. 



9. The lower twigs or branches of all trees, but 

 especially of very young and small ones, should be 

 carefully preserved, and neither injured in planting 

 nor interfered with afterwards by grass or rank herbage 

 of any kind choking them. 



10. Attention should be paid that no heating of 

 the plants in transit or in the plant-bed take place, 

 and also that no sea-water touch them, which is fatal, 

 at least to evergreens. 



