22 A Chapter on Planting Trees. 



the past year. They need not shrink from doing so for fear 

 they have nothing to communicate ; every one is capable of 

 adding something to our stock of information. It is only 

 through such means that we can arrive at satisfactory results. 

 —Ed. 



Art. III. A Chapter on Planting Trees. By Samuel 

 Walker, Esq., President of the Massachusetts Horticultu- 

 ral Society. 



1. It requires two persons to plant a tree properly. 



2. The soil should be well prepared by deep trenching ; 

 pulverized and made rich by compost manure, before the 

 planting is commenced. 



3. The holes for receiving the trees should be sufficiently 

 large to receive the roots entire, without bending or crowd- 

 ing them. 



4. Trees should 7iever be planted more than an inch deep- 

 er than they were in the nursery. Deep planting is often 

 fatal, atid ahvays injurious. 



5. All broken roots should be pared off smoothly with a 

 sharp knife, on the under side. 



6. The tree when planted, should be held upright in the 

 hole prepared to receive it, and the roots spread out into 

 their natural position ; the soil should then be carefully 

 introduced around and between all the roots arid fibres, until 

 the hole is completely filled up. 



7. After the tree is thus planted, press the soil gently, but 

 firmly down with your foot. Water is not often necessary. 

 If the season should be very dry, for some seven to ten days, 

 after the planting in the Spring, one generous supply of rain 

 or pond water, that has been exposed to the rays of the sun 

 for some twenty-four hours, may be beneficial, if some litter or 

 other such material is placed around the roots at the same time. 



8. Trees planted in the Fall should not be watered, — 

 the autumnal rains will be all-sufficient. Newly transplant- 

 ed trees are like silk animals, they want care and attention ; 



