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kinds are certain to be injured by the winter, as in very 

 many seasons they are not in the least affected, still they are 

 exposed to vicissitudes which may or may not occur. Many 

 gentlemen, however, of excellent judgment, make their 

 plantations in the fall, which only serves to prove, that even 

 in the most intelligent minds a diversity of opinion exists. 



Trees, &c. on their arrival at the place of destination. 



As soon as the trees arrive at the place where they are to 

 be planted, let a trench be dug in cultivated ground, the 

 bundles unpacked, and the roots well wet, and immediately 

 covered with earth in the trench, observing to make the 

 earth fine that is spread over them, so as not to leave vacan- 

 cies for the admission of air to dry the roots it having been 

 found by experience, that the thriftines* of trees, the first 

 season after transplantation, depends much on the fine fibres 

 of the roots being kept moist, and not suffered to dry from 

 the time they are taken up until they are replanted a pre- 

 caution which is always attended to with respect to the trees 

 sent from the Nurseries of the Proprietor, as the roots are 

 invariably kept moist from the time they are taken up until 

 they are packed ready to be shipped. Their success, there- 

 fore, must depend principally on the subsequent management 

 on their arrival at the place of destination ; for if, when the 

 bundles are unpacked, the trees are carelessly left exposed 

 to drying winds, the young fibres of the roots must perish, 

 and the trees, if they live at all, cannot thrive the first sea- 

 son, as they can receive little or no nourishment until those 

 fibres, are replaced. 



Manner of Planting. 



Let the holes be dug somewhat larger than is sufficient to 

 admit the roots in their natural position, and of sufficient 

 depth to allow the tree to be placed two or three inches 

 deeper than it was before transplanting take care to cut off 

 any wounded parts of the root, and to reduce the top full one 

 third, by shortening the branches or thinning them out. Let 

 from two to four shovelsful of well rotted stable manure, in 

 proportion to the size of the tree, be incorporated with the 

 earth, and the whole made fine previous to filling it in ; and, 

 during the operation of filling in the earth, let the tree be 

 several times shaken, in order that the soil may be admitted 



