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wardness in the growth of trees, the first only excepted, uni- 

 formly operate during the first seaso7i after their removal, 

 which points out the vast influence which their health, during 

 that critical period, seems to possess over their after-progress. 

 As the evils specified are all, excepting one, in our own power, 

 and such as by attention and industry may be prevented, so 

 it likewise points out of how much importance it is, both to 

 the general planter, and the planter for immediate effect, by 

 every effort to endeavour to prevent them, by attention to 

 the selection, condition, treatment, and growth of their plants, 

 in the early stages of their progress. 



It is highly probable, that one or other of these causes of 

 backwardness exist in all removed subjects which become 

 stationary, although we are not always aware of its existence. 

 How successfully soever a tree maybe transferred, we do not 

 expect any considerable shoots from it, till after the third or 

 fourth year ; and we do not decidedly pronounce as to its 

 backwardness, till the fifth or sixth, when, if it be a fine 

 subject, we begin to look round for a remedy. At this junc- 

 ture, the evil or evils in question are in a very great degree 

 alleviated, by the efforts made by the plants themselves to 

 regain their lost strength. Hence, the stimulus of the com- 

 post above recommended, must now come at a very opportune 

 period. Coal or wood-ashes, or peat-compost, as already said, 

 soot, the sweepings of houses, and other miscellaneous com- 

 pounds, intimately mixed with soil in a completely friable 

 state, are peculiarly fitted for this purpose ; and in fact, no- 

 thing less than such a stimulus is sufficient to compensate 

 for the want of heat, and to render vegetation once more 

 active, counteracted as it must be, by the severity of the 

 process of removal itself, and by the effects of the exposure, 

 in which the tree has been placed. The great object, in the 

 application of all manure, is, to furnish as much soluble 

 matter as possible to the roots of plants, and that in a slow 



