TREE-PLANTING. 2Q 



mitted to become dry, and it is well also to sprinkle 

 the foliage at the time of planting. Moreover, do 

 not permit careless workmen to save a few minutes 

 in the digging of the trees. Every fibrous root 

 that can be preserved intact is a promise of life 

 and vigor. If a nurseryman should send me an 

 assortment of evergreens with only the large woody 

 roots left, I should refuse to receive the trees. 



What I have said in opposition to the trans- 

 planting of large trees applies with greater force 

 to evergreens. Mr. Hoopes writes : " An error 

 into which many unpractised planters frequently fall 

 is that of planting large trees ; and it is one which 

 we consider opposed to sound common-sense. 

 We are aware that the owner of every new place 

 is anxious to produce what is usually known as 

 an immediate effect, and therefore he proceeds to 

 plant large evergreens, covering his grounds with 

 great unsightly trees. In almost every case of 

 this kind the lower limbs are apt to die, and 

 thus greatly disfigure the symmetry of the trees. 

 Young, healthy plants, when carefully taken up 

 and as properly replanted, are never subject to 

 this disfigurement, and are almost certain to form 

 handsome specimens." 



Any one who has seen the beautiful pyramids, 

 cones, and mounds of green into which so many 

 varieties develop, if permitted to grow according 



