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planting evergreens, they must at least, I think, be satisfied that it 
is not the very worst time that can be fixed upon. This qualified 
acquiescence in my opinion, is, perhaps, all that I am entitled to 
hope for; for, notwithstanding all that I have said about planting 
evergreens, and notwithstanding my belief that all which I have said 
is founded on common sense, an Vv correct by 
long and extensive practice, yet many a person, from prejudice, 
obstinacy, or indolence of mind, will argue, what everybody says 
must be right; and as almost everybody says, that spring and 
but of this I shall speak afterwards), sent to a distance, planted at 
the usual season, and treated in the ordinary way. 
from the Old Botanic Garden to the New, an amateur chose to 
stow some pains upon me to teach me how to move such. He 
was very minute in stating the exact process he adopted, and urged 
me to adopt the same plan. About fifteen years before that he 
Said he had planted twenty pretty large plants, or rather small trees 
