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rigors of our winters on a drier and more elevated 

 piece of ground. 



Again, success has sometimes attended careless 

 transplanting; while on the other hand, the great- 

 est care has resulted in loss. In the first instance, 

 the trees may have been in the best condition, the 

 roots uninjured, the soil just right, and every at- 

 tending circumstance favorable. In the other, 

 every thing may have been done right, but some 

 accidental disaster proved ruinous. A neighbor, as 

 an instance, set out several peach trees in autumn 

 in a first rate manner ; but his soil was low, and 

 became soaked with water in winter, causing their 

 death. Removal from high and exposed, to low and 

 frosty ground, or the reverse, may often influence 

 the result. Even a wet subsoil, where the surface 

 has been dry, has destroyed tender trees in winter, 

 as the apricot, without removal. 



Again, when the soil is a heavy clay, and holds 

 water like a tub, tender trees are in great danger 

 from autumn transplanting, unless provision is made 

 for draining the holes ; which may be effected by 

 running a deep furrow from one hole to the other, 

 along the line of trees, and using brush, cornstalks, 

 or straw, as a temporary under-drain for the water 

 to soak away. 



It sometimes happens, when trees are received 

 from a distance after long delay on the road, that 

 they become dry and withered, and giveli#j:<rfiope 



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