
          A
Short Treatise
on the Management of
Fruit and Ornamental Trees,
Shrubs, and Plants,

The proprietors, in supplying orders for Trees,
&c. from the different and most remote parts of the
Union, also from various parts of Europe, have frequent
applications for directions as to their management
to accompany them; they conclude the following
short Treatise will be found very acceptable.

When the Trees, &c. are received, if they have
been a considerable time out of the earth, let the
roots be plentifully watered, or soaked in rain water
for several hours; and if not convenient to plant
them within a few days, let a trench be dug in soft
ground, the bundles unpacked, and after the roots
are well wet, let them be covered up with earth
made fine, and not with hard lumps, so as to keep
the roots partly dry; the Trees, &c. can then be
planted as soon as convenient, and without injury --
in planting, the Trees ought to be set two or three
inches deeper than before, and in filling in the
earth around the roots, let some old well rotted
stable manure be incorporated with the earth, according
to the size of the Tree, from one to three
shovels full, leaving a hollow or basin around each
Tree or Shrub to catch the rain and convey it to
the roots.
        