THE GOOSEBERRY. S5 



Proper season for transplanting. 



weeks it will be fully settled to admit of 

 planting: for which business a dry day only 

 is to be considered favourable. 



These plants maturing their wood more 

 early than the generality of fruit-trees, will 

 admit of being planted in autumn as soon 

 as their leaves have changed colour, or be- 

 gan to fall off, which will happen to those 

 growing in sunny and hot situations ; as soon 

 as September, or early in October, when they 

 may be safely transplanted to the situation 

 in which they are intended to remain ; by 

 which, as they will be less liable to injury 

 from drought in case of an ensuing dry 

 spring, a tolerable proportion of fair fruit 

 may, by such early planting, be obtained 

 the following summer, and, at least, suffi- 

 cient to determine their varieties. Should 

 the weather prove dry at that season, it will 

 be easy to furnish these newly-planted trees 

 with one or two soaking waterings, to pre- 

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