334 SIR HENRY STEUART's METHOD 



" Into materials so compounded, the minutest 

 fibres or absorbents of the root will enter with avi- 

 dity, on the first approach of the genial heat of 

 spring ; or possibly the fine and friable nature of 

 the composition may occasion an anticipation of the 

 period. The buds ere long will expand, the leaves 

 will be enlarged, and assume a far deeper and more 

 lively green. By midsummer, the tree will have 

 shot some inches ; and by the following season pro- 

 bably more than a foot ; and it will continue to ex- 

 hibit both established health and progressive vi- 

 gour." 



Such are the principal features of the treatment 

 which trees in open dispositions ought to receive 

 after being transplanted. The management of such 

 as have been formed into close plantations is simi- 

 lar, with the exception that it is rather more sim- 

 ple. In this case, it will be seldom necessary to ap- 

 ply the beater, and the accurate levelling of the sur- 

 face is of little consequence. Watering is to be per- 

 formed once every four days in dry weather, as has 

 been directed above, but not so copiously, as, the 

 trees being close, less evaporation will take place 

 than in open situations. The ground in all close 



