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larly reprehend the practice. It is difficult to deter- 

 mine how far early friiitfulness and consequent 

 infirmity of constitution, diminutiveness of size at 

 maturity, and early decay, may originate from kiln- 

 drying the cones ; but, from the same process of 

 drying in a less degree having been ascertained to 

 induce early seed-bearing in the case of other seeds, 

 we may infer almost to certainty, that the coniferae 

 of this country, not natm-ally planted, are very ma- 

 terially inj LU'ed by this practice. 



It is of small consequence, in reference to the tree 

 itself, at what season deciduous trees are planted, 

 provided they be naked of leaf, and the ground not 

 too dry, as they are not liable to lose much by desic- 

 cation or evaporation by the bark alone, before the 

 roots strike anew in spring, and draw freely from the 

 soil; and the skin of the bulb, although the small root- 

 lets be broken, sucks up moistm-e from the damp soil 

 to repair the loss by superior evaporation : but ever- 

 greens — ^firs, hollies, laurels, yews, sometimes suffer 

 by removal at a time when the roots do not imme- 

 diately strike, as in winter, omng to the torpor from 

 cold. We have often seen their juices exhausted, 

 and their leaves entirely withered, by a continuation 

 of dry northerly winds, the manifest cause of which 



