APPENDIX. Ill 



nures in light and frequent doses, and protect the roots 

 from sun and frost by mulching. 



As evidence of the practical merit of the plan of sur- 

 face-planting which we advocate, we will take the li- 

 berty to refer to the magnificent specimens of Norway 

 Spruce, Austrian Pine, and other evergreens, on the 

 lawn of J. S. Lovering, Esq., of Oak Hill, on Old York 

 Koad, near Philadelphia, which we planted upon this 

 system. These fine trees were about four feet, and four 

 feet six inches high when planted. They were taken 

 up with balls of earth about eighteen inches deep and 

 two feet in diameter, and set on the surface of the lawn 

 in cavities not more than three or four inches deep; 

 mounds were formed around them with good, loam, and 

 they were mulched for two years as before described. 

 They never met with any check or injury; the foliage 

 never sufi"ered in the least ; and they are now, when 

 only six years planted, the finest of specimen trees, up- 

 wards of eighteen and twenty feet high, the admiration 

 of every beholder competent to judge of their excel- 

 lence and beauty. 



The same may be said of the evergreens which we 

 planted five years ago on the grounds of J. Swift, Esq., 

 half a mile north of Mr. Lovering, on the York Road, 

 in a very exposed, bleak situation. Here, where the 

 white pine deeply planted, turned brown and lost its 

 foliage in winter, the Austrians, shallow planted, not 

 only endured the fierce north-westers without injury, 



