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these circumstances, and effects of climate, may greatly aid 

 those concerned in the acclimation of trees calculated for 

 fruit or for ornament. 



Nursery Soils. 



As a prejudice has prevailed from time immemorial, that 

 trees, like cattle, when removed from a rich to a poorer soil, 

 cannot thrive; and, as nursery grounds are generally sup- 

 posed to be kept in the richest possible state, it is a duty 

 which the author owes to himself to remark, that for many 

 years he has not made use of as much manure on his 

 grounds as is commonly put on the same quantity ofground 

 by fanners in their usual course of agriculture not from 

 any belief in the above mentioned doctrine, but from motives 

 of economy, resulting from actual experiment, he has sub- 

 stituted culture for manure, by having his grounds, previ- 

 ously to planting, ploughed more than t>vice the usual depth, 

 and by having the ground each year dug alongside of the 

 rows of trees. By this management they are continued in 

 the most thrifty state until the period for transplantation. 

 The doctrine of trees not thriving when removed from a rich 

 to a poorer soil, has long since been exploded in Europe. 

 Marshall, a celebrated English writer, is very particular on 

 this subject, and gives instances that have come under his 

 observation to prove its fallacy, in his " Rural Economy of 

 the Midland Counties of England,*' vol i, p. 85. It is abso- 

 lutely necessary that the young trees, at the time of trans- 

 planting, should be vigorous and thrifty, and it is of no con- 

 sequence whether this is produced by strength of soil or by 

 culture, as the young trees will then have a constitution pre- 

 pared to feed themselves on coarser food. 



To those who insist on the point that nurseries of trees 

 should be reared on poor ground, the reply may be made, 

 that it might, with equal aptitude, be asserted, that a decre- 

 pid man is the best calculated to sustain the toils of a jour- 

 ney. 



Orchards near the Sea-skore. 



It is recommended, in localities wholly exposed to the 

 ocean such as Nantucket, and other islands that those 

 who desire to succeed in cultivating fruits, should first plant 

 a row of red cedars, willows, or other hardy trees, to break 



