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A SHORT TREATISE 



On the Management of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs^ 

 Plants, &c. with cursory Descriptions of some which are 

 of recent introduction and acknowledged merit. 



JL HE Proprietor of the IJNN^AN GARDEN, in supplying 

 the orders for trees, 8cc. from remote parts of the United 

 States, having frequent applications for directions for their 

 management to accompany them, concludes that the follow- 

 ing remarks, though brief, will be found acceptable. 



Season for Trans planting. 



Spring is the season when we find the most pleasure in 

 making our rural improvements, and from this circumstance 

 probably it has become the most general season for planting 

 trees but experience has proved the fall planting to be the 

 most successful, especially in those parts of the United 

 States which are subject to droughts, as the trees planted in 

 autumn suffer little or none from a drought, when those set 

 out in spring often perish in consequence of it. 



Notwithstanding, with regard to those fruits that have been 

 originally brought from warmer climates such as the 

 peach, apricot, nectarine, and almond, which are natives 

 of Persia, Armenia, Sec. it is necessary for us to consult the 

 operations of climate also, and from a consideration of these 

 attendant circumstances, I have come to the following con- 

 clusion : In localities south of New-York, the fall season is 

 preferable for transplanting all trees' north of New-York, 

 the fall is preferable only for the apple, pear, plum, cherry, 

 quince, and all other trees of northern latitudes ; whereas 

 the spring is to be preferred for the peach, apricot, necta- 

 rine, and almond, which, for the reasons before stated, 

 might, during severe winters, suffer from the intensity of the 

 frosts. Still I do not mean to assert, that trees of these 





