64 TRANSPLANTING. 



The more tender trees, as apricots and peaches, re- 

 moved to a colder region, may be in more danger, if 

 the roots have been much mutilated and the setting 

 out badly done. A neighbor purchased fifty peach 

 trees in the autumn, and lost half of them the fol- 

 lowing severe winter ; another bought fifty the 

 next spring, and lost only one. Was this a conclu- 

 sive proof that spring planting was best ? By no 

 means; for in the former case they were set out in 

 grass land, and received no culture; in the latter, 

 they had the best care. The same autumn another 

 purchaser, saved all his peach trees by good man- 

 agement ; the same spring another lost. most of his 

 by neglect. We may hence infer that good manage- 

 ment is of incomparably more importance than the 

 season of the year. 



But there are many things to be taken into ac- 

 count in drawing conclusions. It has been remark- 

 ed that tender trees taken to a colder climate may 

 be in danger of winter frosts. Good, thrifty, and 

 well ripened wood, however, where the trees have 

 / grown on high, dry, firm soil, even from a warmer 

 region of country, would be much safer than tre,es 

 of succulent growth and badly ripened wood, from 

 a colder. So again, trees equally hardy, might 

 perish when set out on a low, sheltered place, or on 

 a wet soil, while they would endure the severest 



it lasts is more rapid, its cessation more sudden, and the dry- 

 ness of the air unfavorable to removal before growth ceases. 



