UPROOTING BY FROST. 



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weeding between the rows of plants, fill with good soil all 

 inequalities thus produced in the beds. 



It is advisable in autumn to leave a few weeds in the beds, 

 as their rojts give coherence to the soil. Any plants which 

 have been uprooted by frost, should be at once replaced, and 

 fine soil placed round them. This is not an expensive opera- 

 tion if boys are employed, and costs only from threepence to 

 fourpence per thousand plants. 



Fig. 241.— Effects of Wiud on Beech. Altitude 

 Photo, by R. E. Marsden. 



2,500 ft. 



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