160 Upon the Pruning and Management of, fye. 



excess of moisture is in such cases, generally injurious, and 

 often fatal. 



About midsummer a few of the trees began to exhibit some 

 feeble symptoms of life ; several subsequently shot vigorously, 

 some to the length of eighteen inches ; and out of sixty -four 

 trees, I lost only three. They succeeded, in the aggregate, 

 better than other trees of nearly the same age, which were 

 only removed from a contiguous nursery, but which were not 

 sprinkled with water ; the season having proved cold and 

 dry, and consequently extremely unfavourable to transplanted 

 trees. 



I had previously seen, in other instances, though never in so 

 apparently hopeless a case, the good effects of sprinkling the 

 stems and branches of transplanted trees before the sun 

 began to shine upon them in the morning, both in the forcing- 

 house and in the open air. In the forcing-house, I have found 

 that water may be also thus applied with advantage in the 

 evening as well as in the morning ; but, in the open air, I 

 have had reason to think its operation injurious, when the 

 succeeding night has proved cold. 



