£06 CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF OAK. 



tination. In order to have the same comparative 

 view of the effects of a second removal, as any one 

 who is at the trouble to proceed in the experiment 

 so far as is above detailed, will have of a first, take 

 up one row of the transplanted oaks on the second 

 March following that in which they first underwent 

 the same process. Dig the ground as before, and 

 again plant the oaks, each, if possible, in the very 

 place in w^hich it formerly stood ; but instead of 

 using a dibble, open holes with the spade of suf- 

 ficient dimensions to contain the roots, which will 

 now be too large to admit of the former method of 

 proceeding. Set the plants in these holes, one in 

 each, draw the earth over their roots, and fix them 

 by treading it gently down with the foot. Few of 

 the plants will go back after this second removal, in 

 comparison to the number that failed the first time ; 

 for oaks that have survived one transplanting are 

 never in such danger from the same process after- 

 wards. In other respects, the result will not be 

 more encouraging than on the former occasion. Not 

 only will the plants have a sickly appearance, and 

 put forth little or no young wood during the ensu- 

 ing summer, but many of the shoots they had made 

 the preceding one will wither and die, so that their 

 progress, instead of being forwarded, will rather 



