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add, a neat one also. To the most fastidious eye, the effect 

 produced by it is neither heavy nor displeasing, as the hue of 

 the stakes, in a few days, sufliciently harmonizes with that 

 of the bark; and so far from appearing a deformity, it is, as 

 has been observed above, quite unobtrusive, and is nearly 

 invisible, at fifty yards' distance. 



As the season advances, and the drought of summer sets 

 in, the watering of the trees planted in the spring, and the 

 preceding winter, next claims attention. About the end of 

 May, or beginning of June, when no refreshing showers 

 have fallen for a fortnight, is the time to put in requisition 

 the water-cart, and to endeavour to supply by artificial 

 means that degree of moisture, which, after the first year is 

 over, a more advanced state of consolidation enables the soil 

 to retain. There is scarcely an instance of a tree, if proper- 

 ly removed, requiring water in the second year, excepting 

 perhaps the oak, when it fails to come out freely in June ; but 

 even in that case, it is quite unnecessary to repeat the opera- 

 tion, beyond the month in question. 



The water-cart is a very simple implement, being merely 

 an open cart, with broad wheels, having a large barrel or 

 hogshead mounted on it (an old wine pipe answers the pur- 

 pose admirably ;) and there aie superadded a spreading 

 mouth at the bunghole, for filling the cask, and a large brass 

 cock below, for drawing off the water. The best time for 

 dispensing this refreshing element, is unquestionably the 

 evening, as little or no evaporation takes place during the 

 night ; but in works of any extent, it is not possible always 

 to time it with accuracy. A single workman, with a couple 

 of stable-pails, attends the driver of the cart, and both assist 

 in drawing off, and distributing the water. In executing 

 this, they cannot pour it on too leisurely, equally dribbling it 

 out over the surface of the pit, and to the full extent of the 

 roots, but most copiously near the stem, and on the nucleus of 

 the root. Four or five pails, which contain sixteen or eigh- 



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