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A SHORT TIIEATISE 



On the Management of Fruit and Ornamental Trees ^ Shrubs^ 

 Plants^ tSc. tvith cursory Descriptions of some ivhich are 

 of recent introduction and acknowledged merit , 



X HE Proprietor of the Linn^an Garden, in supplying 

 ihe orders for Trees, Sec. from remote parts of the United 

 Slates, having frequent applications for directions for their 

 management to accompany them, concludes that the follow- 

 ing brief remarks will be found acceptable. 



Season for Transplanting, 



Spring is the season when we find the most pleasure in 

 making oxir rural improvements, and from this circumstance 

 probably it has become the most general season for planting 

 ^rees— but experience has proved the fall planting to be the 

 most successful, especially in those parts of the United States 

 which are subject to droughts, as the trees planted in autumn 

 suffer little or none from a drought, when those set out in 

 spring often perish in consequence of it. 



Trces^ iP'c, on their arrival at the filace cf destination. 



As soon as the trees arrive at the place where they are to 

 be planted, let a trench be dug in cultivated ground, the 

 bundles unpacked, and the roots well v/ct and immediately 

 covered with earth in the trench, observing to make the earth 

 fine that is spread over them, so as not to leave vacancies for 

 the admission of air to dry the roots — it having been found 

 by experience, that the thriftiness of trees, the first season 

 alter transplantation, depends much on the fine fibres of the 

 roots being kept moist, and not suffered to dry from the time 

 they ai-e taken up until they are replanted — a precaution 

 which is always attended to with respect to the trees sent 

 from this garden, as the roots are invariably kept moist from 

 the time they are taken up until they are packed ready to be 

 shipped. Their success, therefore, must depend principally 

 on the subsequent management on their arrival at the place 

 of destination ; for if, When the bundles are unpacked, the 

 trees are carelessly left exposed to drying winds, the young 



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