CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF OAK. 



quent experiments, conducted on precisely similar 

 principles, and begun respectively in the years 18^2, 

 1823, and 1824. The results of these corresponded 

 exactly with the above. The oaks raised from acorns 

 got the start of the transplanted ones the second 

 year, in every instance ; and, so long as I had an op- 

 portunity of observing them, added to the superio- 

 rity thus acquired, each succeeding season. The 

 lime, too, had the same salutary effects as in the 

 first experiment. 



I have laid these results before the reader, not 

 only for the sake of convincing him, that, in the in- 

 novations I have proposed, I have not been under 

 the guidance of vague and uncertain theory, but to 

 point out to him an easy way of putting the merits 

 of these innovations to the proof. Any person who 

 wishes to have ocular demonstration of the truth of 

 what I have advanced, before he ventures to put my 

 plan in execution, on a large scale, may repeat my 

 experiments at the expense of a few shillings, and a 

 very moderate share of trouble. 



There is, however, one peculiarity of my system, 

 which the foregoing experiments do not illustrate. 

 I have not only directed that the oak should be 

 raised immediately from the acorn, without the in- 

 tervention of transplanting, and that lime should be 



