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The tree, with its brightly-colored fruit and handsome foliage, is quite 

 ornamental in the garden. 



This fruit has several times been exhibited at the Horticultural-Society 

 Rooms as the General Banks. 



PLANTING TREES. 



So much has been written upon this subject, that it seems almost or quite 

 impossible to offer any thing that will prove of interest to the readers of 

 this Journal. It is true, however, that there are some entering the field 

 of horticulture every year who are novices in tree-planting, to whom even 

 that which may appear quite simple to the experienced fruit-grower will be 

 of great interest. If one is to plant an orchard, or even ornamental trees, 

 he must know how to do it, if he would have them live and flourish. There 

 is a great degree of ignorance on this subject, notwithstanding all that has 

 been published ; and even those who do know do not always pay sufficient 

 regard to the conditions and requirements of trees and shrubs. It shall 

 be our object to treat the subject of tree-planting so plainly, that any per- 

 son of ordinary capacity may understand it sufiiciently well to perform the 

 work with a good degree of success. 



One of the first conditions to the successful planting of trees is a good 

 soil ; and, without this, the best results cannot be expected. Presuming the 

 soil to be favorable, then it should be trenched, or subsoiled, and, if need- 

 ful, drained. If the former be done, the soil is greatly deepened, giving the 

 roots of the trees or plants ample opportunity to stretch themselves far 

 and wide ; though, to have them do well when planted on land that has 

 been so treated, a large quantity of well-decomposed manure should be 

 used, and either ploughed or dug in, because much poor subsoil is brought 

 near the surface and mixed with the good. If the land has been so treated, 

 the holes may be dug for the trees only large enough in diameter to con- 

 veniently allow all the roots to be straightened out, and deep enough to 

 admit of their being planted a little deeper, say one or two inches, than 

 they were in the nursery. It is quite important to observe this suggestion 



