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A SHORT TREATISE 
On the Management of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, 
Plants, Sc. with cursory Descriptions of some which are 
of recent introduction and acknowledged merit, ©  — * 
‘t Hii Proprietor of the Linnzan Garden, in supplying. 
the orders for Trees, &c. from remote parts of the United 
States, having frequent applications for directions for their 
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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 our rural improvements, and from this circumstance 
probably it has become the most general season for planting 
trees—but experience has proved the fal] 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, 
Trees, Sc. on their arrival at the flace of 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 wet and immediately 
covered with earth in the trench, observing to make the earth 
fine that is spread over them, so as not to Jeave 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 are taken up until they are replanted—a precaution 
which is always attended to with Tespect 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 
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of destination; for if, when the bundles are unpacked, the 
trees are carelessly left exposed to drying winds, the young 
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