338 HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 
— I suppose, was the full extent of his practice in the art); he 
told me the exact sum of money each cost in removing and 
sition which»I considered very moderate ; ~_ rpg - he 
close “ii his narrative by saying that he di d not know from what 
ea 
many deaths among yours also. , it will surely be better to 
plant only one that will thrive and dos elle than twenty which will 
die ; eerie nothing can be more evidently proper than the rule, 
“Do the work w ell, and do the less 
a — calm day answers very well, but in autumn or spring a moist 
in planting —— whether in a dull day, a wet day, or a 
dry day, it is very necessary to keep in view the expediency of 
keeping the plants for as short a time out of the grou und as 
eal so d with water as soon as the —_ . put about the 
success of the plantation afterw lant has 
een put into its place, the cath should be filled sy leaving a 
sufficient hollow round t m, as far s oots 
quantity to soak the grou und down to the lowest part ‘of the roots ; 
in short, the whole should be made ike a kind of puddle. By this 
down near to the root, I cau mes ae to be pour red u upon it; this 
breaks the fall of the ee and prevents the roots from being 
washed bare of such earth as may adhere to them; in chs way 
time is saved, for the water may be poured on in a full stream 
from a pail, a water-pot, or even from a spout or pipe in the water- 
*This is universally true, but the urgency is less where the evergreens are planted 
in winter to form underwood in extensive plantations. _In this case the deaths with- 
out watering will be so few that they are not worth avoiding at much expense and 
trouble. 
