TLANTING. 77 



tiDgs in the open ground. Plants raised from eyes 

 in pots, early in spring, and transferred in summer to 

 their final location, do very well. 



Proper Season for Planting. — ^The proper season 

 for planting depends much upon local circumstances 

 — soil and climate being chiefly to be considered. In 

 a few instances, were the soil is light and the climate 

 mild, it may do to risk fall planting, but under all 

 ordinary circumstances we should advise this opera- 

 tion to be deferred till pretty late in the spring, and 

 this advice is founded upon the uniformly favorable 

 results which have attended this plan in our own 

 experience, as opposed to frequent want of success at 

 other times. Plants set out even early in the fall 

 rarely outstrip those planted in the following spring, 

 and when autumn planting is delayed much beyond 

 the fall of the leaf, the plants frequently fail if the 

 winters are severe. 



The reason of this probably depends upon the fact 

 that the roots of all plants when vegetation is active, 

 are enabled to resist adverse influences which would 

 prove fatal to them when dormant. Thus the vine 

 when growing will revel in a degree of moisture 

 which would destroy it, or at least prove very injuri- 

 ous during the winter months. Now the roots of all 

 trees are more or less injured by transplanting, and 



