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A SHORT TREATISE 



On the management of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 

 Shrubs, Plants, #*c. with cursory descriptions of some 

 which are of recent introduction and acknowledged 

 merit* 



The Proprietor of the Linnaean Garden, in supply- 

 ing the orders for Trees, &c. from remote parts of the 

 United States, having frequent applications for direc- 

 tions for their management to accompany them, con- 

 cludes that the following brief remarks will be found 

 acceptable. 



Season for Transplanting. 



Spring is the season when we feel the most pleasure 

 in making our rural improvements, and from this cir- 

 cumstance probably it has become the most general sea- 

 son for planting trees — but experience has proved th^ 

 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 the spring 

 often perish in consequence of it.. 



Trees, (^c. on their arrival at the place 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, ob- 

 serving 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 after transplanta- 

 tion, 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 



