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PLANTING. 



season ought to be attended to, when it 

 possibly can be done. 



If planting is to be performed in winter, 

 always do it when the weather is mild, as a 

 frosty air soon damages the tender fibres. 

 But whenever the borders are of a wet heavy 

 soil, the planting must be deferred until 

 spring; the reason for so doing is, that the 

 roots will not strike so soon in such a soil, 

 as in one lighter and more suitable for the 

 trees, unless they be planted at the end of 

 September or very early in October, when 

 they probably might strike root before win- 

 ter. But if not planted as early as described, 

 it very rarely happens that they will strike 

 root until spring, consequently the trees 

 would have been much better to have re- 

 mained in their previous situation until the 

 time of their removal at the end of March 

 or early in April, for the removing them 

 certainly gives them a check, and by the 

 soil being of a cold and wet nature, instead 

 of the roots being benefited they are more 

 frequently injured, and sometimes the ten- 

 der fibres are rotted off. And in the spring 

 when their assistance is wanted to aid in the 

 speedy establishment of the tree, those rotted 

 fibres spread their injurious effects to other 

 parts of the root, and thus retarding instead 

 of promoting its welfare. 



Whatever time of the year you may chuse 

 for planting in, do not let it be performed in 



