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Directions for 

 pruning them. 



Plants kept 

 alive in the 

 moss nine 

 months. 



METHOD OF PACKING PLANTS FOR EXPORTATION. 



between each for a road. A portion of the earth is to be 

 thrown out of the five feet beds, upon these roads, so as to 

 rais^hem four inches higher than the beds, as shown in the 

 plan ; C represents the plants as first set out, with an arched 

 cover of canvas cloth over them ; D shows the plants when 

 they have grown in the beds for some time, and in a state 

 ready for planting out. 



To illustrate the mode of cutting or pruning the plants, 

 after they are removed from the package : fig. 3, No. 1, is 

 supposed to be a fruit tree, of one year's growth from the 

 graft, that is a maiden plant. It is to be cut down as is re- 

 presented in No. 2, and the next season's growth will form 

 the tree No. 3. When it is fit to remain as a dwarf, or if 

 pruned, as is represented in No. 4, it will form a standard, 

 or such as are usually planted in orchards with high stems, 

 in order to be out of the reach of cattle. No 5 is supposed 

 to represent any small tree, that has not been grafted, but 

 cut down for planting. No. 6 is the form it will make the 

 following season, when it maybe left; or, should it be in., 

 tended for timber, or have a crooked stem, cut it close 

 down to the ground as at No. 7, and it will throw up se- 

 veral shoots, which should be all cut off but the strongest, 

 and that will make the tree No. 8.^ This may afterward 

 be kept trimmed up to a single stem, and a tree be formed 

 much better than in any other mode. 



N. B. The packages of plants, Nos. 1 and 2, men- 

 tioned in Mr. Salisbury's first letter, were opened and exa- 

 mined by the committee of agriculture, on the 16th of 

 January, 1809, when all the plants appeared to be in a 

 state fit for vegetation. The boxes were then closed, and 

 placed in the society's model room, and opened again on 

 the oOth of May, at the distribution of the rewards of the 

 society ; the plants were then in a state fit for growth, hav- 

 ing formed both new roots and branches during their con- 

 finement. It appears, therefore, that the plants were, from 

 their first enclosure by Mr. Salisbury, thus preserved nine 

 months out of the earth. 



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