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ment of their branches should be made in the nursery from 

 which they are to be removed ; and, if it be properly execu- 

 ted, trees may be conveyed to great distances, under more 

 disadvantageous circumstances than is usually supposed, with- 

 out endangering life, provided they be subjected to proper 

 subsequent management. 



I received in the last spring some apple trees from Ame- 

 rica ; which were forwarded to me from London by a wrong 

 waggon, and consequently did not arrive till near the middle 

 of April, and many weeks after the period at which I ought 

 to have received them. The whole of them appeared per- 

 fectly lifeless and dry, and much better fitted for fire-wood 

 than for planting ; and I scarcely entertained the slightest 

 hope of being able to recover a single plant. I nevertheless 

 resolved that no trouble should be spared in making the 

 experiment. 



The American nurserymen had pruned the trees much m 

 the way I wished (though in a very rough and careless man- 

 ner, and obviously without any other object in view than con- 

 venience in packing them); and I had therefore little more 

 to do in pruning them than to take away such branches as 

 were broken and wholly dead. The trees, which were about 

 four feet high, were then planted in a situation where they 

 were perfectly skreened from the morning sun, and just as 

 much water was given as was sufficient to close the mould 

 to the roots. Their stems were then sprinkled with water, 

 by an engine, sufficiently to wet the bark ; and this was re- 

 peated at six o'clock every morning through the months of 

 May, June, and July ; but no water was given immediately to 

 the roots, previous experience having led me to believe, that 



