42 THE CULTIVATION OF THE 



trees because they can be dug with the tap-roots entire 

 and are easy of carriage, etc. In the peninsula nurseries 

 the trees are now generally dug with a tree-plough and 

 baled with baling-cloth with the roots packed in moist 

 moss, or they may be packed in boxes, with moist moss, 

 in which condition they may go safely around the world; 

 the great danger being from too much heat rather than 

 too much cold. If the trees in transportation get in too 

 hot a place, fermentation may ensue and the vitality be 

 destroyed, and the same may happen if they freeze, 

 but first-class packing will usually avoid these evils. I 

 have never lost trees but once, and they came from New 

 York State, disgracefully packed only in a few leaves ; 

 consequently they froze, and many of them were ruined. 



Taking up and shipping the trees is of vast import- 

 ance to the grower and to the producer too, for mixing 

 the varieties or doing the work so as to injure the trees 

 must ruin the latter's reputation and be a source of 

 irremediable loss and disappointment to the former. The 

 nurserymen now do their work with such system and 

 intelligence that I am glad to say very little complaint 

 comes of any errors committed in the business, and it is 

 a business, at once to the body, laborious, and to the 

 mind, exhausting. 



