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pleasure to many, a hundred years after the planter, young 

 or old, lies beneath the sod. Ten minutes of extra time 

 and care, or a hundred of them, devoted to the best plant- 

 ing and care of one tree, will tell upon its life and upon 

 its value in each of all these many after years. One or a 

 few trees well selected, well planted, and well cared for 

 during the first year or two, will usually be more valuable 

 than a far greater number hastily set out, and then neg- 

 lected. In the numerous practical suggestions, from men 

 wise by long experience and observation, which the read- 

 ers will find scattered all along through the columns of 

 this number, there are a dozen points upon which all 

 agree, and which every reader should promptly and care- 

 fully go through with and study at this seasonable period. 

 We briefly summarize those of most importance: After 

 due care in selecting the best specimens, which are the 

 cheapest in the end : (I.) In taking trees from nursery or 

 forest, preserve all the roots and fine rootlets possible. 

 Avoid breaking them in shaking off surplus earth, and dig 

 them out instead of pulling them up. For this reason, 

 trees from nurseries located on light or friable soil are 

 preferable to those on clayey ones. (II.) Trees from 

 nurseries where they have been subject to one or more 

 transplantings in their early growth, are usually better 

 supplied with a mass ofjibrous roots near the base of 

 the stock than^tfeo^'froni ihe forest.^ " ^incidental to this, 



GULTY 



