1 32 General Notices, 



The greater the number of single trees in a given space, the less will be the 

 injury done to each by animals pasturing among them. 



Trees suitable for our mode of planting singly may be obtained from almost 

 every plantation of twenty or thirty years' standing, and from many nurseries. 

 The price of the tree in the latter case will vary with the kind ; but, in the 

 former, we have ascertained that in Kent the trees may be taken up from 

 plantations not exceeding two miles distant, pruned, brought to the spot, 

 planted, and fenced, at 2s. 6d. per tree. This includes trenching a circle 

 of ground in which to plant the tree, 6 ft. in diameter, and raising the soil 

 within the circle 1 ft. high in the centre where the tree is to stand, by soil 

 from the adjoining surface. 



When the saving of ground for pasturage made by this mode of planting, 

 as compared with planting in masses, is taken into consideration, we think it 

 will be found not less desirable, in a pecuniary point of view, than it is in 

 point of effect. 



Forming clumps or masses, for the sake of ultimately producing trees, may 

 have been very well adapted for the state of the country about the middle of 

 the last century, when few or no trees large enough for transplanting singly 

 could be procured from the nurseries, or from young plantations ; but in the 

 present day, when they can be obtained in abundance from both sources, we 

 consider the practice as altogether unsuitable, and, in short, quite behind our 

 present state of knowledge and resources. By planting single trees, the 

 ultimate effect, as we have already observed, is foreseen at once ; it is realised 

 more and more every year as the trees advance in growth ; and, instead of the 

 enjoyment of a place being deferred for a lifetime, it is, by the proprietor who 

 has an eye for landscape, entered on immediately. 



To guard against misconstruction, it may be necessary to state that, when 

 we use the words single tree, we never intend to mean a tree standing by 

 itself, and unconnected with every other object, but a tree which, though 

 standing singly, yet is never so far distant from another tree, or from trees, 

 as not to belong to the same group or mass. It is also to be observed, that 

 we do not propose to head down or cut in trees of the pine and fir tribes. 

 (Gard. Gaz., October 23. 1841.) 



Poittevirfs disinfected Manure has been applied for the growth of turnips, 

 at the rate of 64 bushels per acre. There has been abundance of rain to di- 

 lute it, yet between the rows so manured, and others contiguous which had no 

 manure, the difference in growth, as may be now seen, is not such as is likely 

 to balance the expense; nor does it seem probable that a beneficial result will 

 be obtained. It seems to answer best in the form of manure water ; but in 

 this way it is not equal to that obtained from farm-yard manure. Poittevin's 

 manure has been tried with pelargoniums and calceolarias in pots, and also 

 in the open ground with various other plants ; its effects in all cases have not 

 proved it of more striking utility than common night-soil or any other good 

 manure. In the open ground, where it was tried upon 9 square yards, the 9 

 adjoining yards were planted with the same kinds, and scarcely any difference 

 of growth could be detected. For annuals the manure was mixed with the 

 soil in which they were potted in the following proportions, -^, T V, £, £, and 

 it was used without mixture. The kinds selected were, Nemophila insignis, 

 Impatiens glandulifera and other sorts of balsams, and sweet peas. The 

 plants of Nemophila and sweet peas all became sickly for the first ten days, 

 but began to recover in proportion to the weakness of the mixture, those re- 

 covering first which were in soil with the smallest portion of manure ; some 

 of those planted in manure alone, after becoming very sickly, upon being several 

 times watered, recovered, and finally became more vigorous than any of the 

 others, and of a much darker green The pots were found to be free from 

 worms for a long time. Impatiens glandulifera and others were potted in the 

 proportions -Jg-, ±, ^, and in manure alone. The plants (there were two of 

 each) potted in ■£$ became perceptibly languid; those in \ very sickly, and 

 were evidently much affected by the over-dose, but they began to recover in 



