IV. 



HOW TO PLANT. 



THIS is the most practical of all questions 

 with the tree-planter. He may feel the need of 

 trees, he may be full of craving for their so- 

 ciety, he may even have made his selection of 

 trees and decided where they shall be placed ; 

 but all may come to naught, all will come to 

 naught, if the actual planting is not done aright. 



The first requisite for a successful tree- 

 planter is that he shall recognize the fact that 

 trees are living organisms. To plant a tree 

 is not to fix a post, or to set a stone in place 

 in a wall. Yet much of our tree-planting has 

 been done with as little adaptation of means 

 to ends as if such were supposed to be the 

 work in hand. Very often little regard has 

 been paid to the condition of the tree in itself, 

 or in its relation to the soil or climate of the 



