Jan. H^e Gardeners Kalendar. 29 



is better to delay it until the froft is over, 

 becaufe where trees are greatly wounded, the 

 froft often penetrates, and much injures them ; 

 and when the {hoots are frozen, they will not 

 bend, but are apt to crack. 



When the weather is mild, you (hould con- 

 tinue trenching the ground ,where you intend 

 to plant young trees in the two following 

 months ; and prepare fome beds for fowing 

 kernels of fruit trees, or maft and berries of 

 foreft trees, or flowering (hrubs, fome of which 

 muft be fown the latter end of this month, or 

 the beginning of the next. You fhould alfo 

 continue digging the ground between the rows 

 of trees in the nurfery, when the weather is 

 favourable, being careful not to injure their 

 roots ; but you (hould {h.orten all fuch roots as 

 extend too far from the trees, which will caufe 

 them to put out new fibres near the ftems, 

 and thereby render them much fafer to tranf- 

 plant : this ihould be particularly pradifed to 

 all the forts of ever-gteen trees, otherwife they 

 will be unfafe to remove in a few years. 



In frofty w^eather you (hould carefully look 

 to your young trees in the nurfery to prevent 

 their being eaten by hares, rabbets, or othef 

 animals, which, in fevere feafons, often eat 

 down young trees, and alfo difbark large trees 

 :aad firirubs^ la 



