76 HOW TO CHOOSE YOUNG TREES 



Having visited the public nursery grounds in the 

 month of July, and found the general health of 

 the young trees quite satisfactory, it will again 

 be necessary for the intending planter to visit the 

 same grounds about the first week of November, 

 in order to make a purchase of such trees as he 

 may require for the season. In making purchase, 

 it is absolutely necessary to bear in mind the 

 nature of the ground and situation to be planted. 

 If the ground to be planted be a thin soil upon a 

 high situation, then choose trees from the nursery 

 that have stood rather widely in the rows, and have 

 had free air and room, and are rather of a low set, 

 bushy character, and altogether presenting a hardy 

 appearance — plants of such a character will suffer 

 very little indeed from being removed to a high 

 climate ; and for a high situation, always choose 

 one year's transplanted firs, and hard wood not 

 exceeding two feet in height ; if plants of an oppo- 

 site character be chosen for a high situation — that 

 is, tall, slender plants, wliich have made long shoots 

 of young wood the previous summer — they will be 

 sure to suffer, and it is more than probable that 

 more than one half of them may die. 



If the situation to be planted be a low sheltered 

 one, with a good soil, then choose tall well-grown 

 plants for it; for in such situations there is gene- 

 rally a luxuriant growth of the natural grasses, and 

 unless the young trees be pretty tall, they would 



