No. 7. 



Fragments — Transplanting Trees. 



213 



For tlie Farmers' Cabinet. 



Fi*ug[niciils.— I\o. IV. 



"Gather up the Fragments that nothing be lost." 

 AORICl'LTl'RE 



Is the most ancient, the most honorable, and 

 the most useful of arts; by it the whole hu- 

 man race are fed and clothed ; and it is sup- 

 po.sod that at least three fourths of the inliab- 

 itants of the earth are directly or indirectly 

 engaged in it. 



CLOGS TO AGRICUI.TUaE. 



The greatest clogs to improvements in ag- 

 riculture arc indolence, ignorance, and self 

 conceit; wherever their influence e.xlond, 

 they paralyze the very earth, and produce 

 sterility. 



THE HELPED ARE HELPLESS. 



There are many people in the world, whom 

 it would be in vain to assist; for the more aid 

 they receive from others, the less they exert 

 themselves : verifying the saying, that those 

 who are helped much, are generally most 

 hel2iless. 



THE DIFFERENCE. 



The children of the rich are much helped, 

 wliilst those of the poor have to help them- 

 selves; this weakens the energies of the for- 

 mer, and strengthens those of the latter ; de- 

 pressing one, and elevating the other ; and 

 this keeps the wheel of fortune always re- 

 volving. 



PROCRASTINATION. 



" Unhappy he who does his work adjourn, 

 And till the morrow will his task delay, 

 Tiiat lazy morrow will be like to-day. 

 But is one day of ease too much to borrow ] 

 Yes, sure ; for yesterday w'asonce to-morrow. 

 That yesterday is gone and nothing gaiii'd ; 

 And all thy fruitle.ssdays will thus be drained : 

 For thou hast more to-morrows yet to ask, 

 And wilt be ever to begin thy task; 

 Who like the hindmost chariot-wheels art curst 

 Still to be near, but ne'er lo reach the firbt." 



FACTS 



Are unchangeable in their nature, and when 

 once recorded are never lost. 



WORDS AND ACTION!?. 



We should be as careful of our words as 

 our actions ; and as far from speaking, as from 

 doing, ill. 



JUSTICE 



Consists in doing no injury to men : decency, 

 in giving them no offence. 



Any man may err, but a fool only will per- 

 severe in error. 



A wise man oflen changes his mind, a fool 

 never. 



Transplaiitin;; Trees. 



Success in transplanting trees depends 

 much on the treatment tiity receive in that 

 operation. On removing the trees from the 

 nursery, care should be taken to prevent tlie 

 roots from drying previously to phi tiling them, 

 otherwise thoy may receive considerable in- 

 jury; and when they are to be transported to 

 a distance, particular care should bo taken to 

 preserve tlit-m from drying winds before pack- 

 ing. Inmiediatcly on tlieir receipt the bun- 

 dles should be unpacked, the roots well wa- 

 tered and •' laid in" until the ground in which 

 they are to bu planted be ready to receive 

 them. By laying in, is to be understood the 

 making of a trench sulhciently large to ad- 

 mit the roots, into which llioy are placed ; tiie 

 earth having been previously made line is tiien 

 filled in around Ihem, and a gentle watenng 

 given, in which situation they may remain 

 with salety, until planted. 



The holes in which it is intended to plant 

 them, should, for an ordinary sized nursery 

 tree, be from 2^ to 3 feet in diameter, and 

 about the same depth ; the earth from the bot- 

 tom should be thrown aside, and the place 

 filled up with good compost or black mould 

 (no fresh stable manure should be used in the 

 compost.) The tree should be planted one or 

 two inches deeper than it stood in the nurse- 

 ry, the roots and fibres being spread out hor- 

 izontally, and during the process of filling in 

 the eartl), the tree should be shaken several 

 times to admit the soil between the roots, and 

 also to fill up any cavities that might other- 

 wise remain. The earth should then be trod- 

 den down and gently watered ; in a short time 

 it will have settled, and any hollows that 

 may have formed, should be filled up — finish- 

 ing by forming a basin around the trench to 

 receive the rain or watering which it may be 

 necessary to give it, if the ensuing season 

 should prove dry; to prevent the winds from 

 loosening the earth round the roots, the tree 

 should be secured to a stake by bands of 

 straw. 



The proper season fia* transplanting trees 

 in this latitude, is from the middle of October 

 to the first or middle of May. Trees trans- 

 planted in autumn should have the roots a lit- 

 tle i)rotected during the first and mo.'-t trying 

 winter. This protection may consist of a few 

 inches of litter frotn the stable, placed among 

 their trunks and over their roots. Moss from 

 the meadows or evergreen boughs are, how- 

 ever, preferable fi)r delicate plant,'', as these 

 substances, being almost incorruptible, never 

 injure what they were designed to protect. 



"We have observed," says the Genesee 

 Farmer, " in regard to transplanting fruit 

 trees, that we have rarrly lost one tiiat stood 

 in cultivated ground, uhere the hoe was intro- 



