^teuakt's planter's guide. 



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ready delineated, as belonging to trees in open si- 

 tuations, are essential and necessary to the vigorous 

 development of their existence, so they may be set 

 down as indispensable prerequisites for those in- 

 tended for transplantation, which generally implies 

 increased exposure ; and that soil and climate being 

 equal, such subjects will succeed the best as are en- 

 dued in the greatest degree with those prerequisites 

 or properties." 



" If we adopt this principle, and follow it up 

 with a judicious mode of execution, it seems evi- 

 dent that the necessity of defacing or mutilating 

 the fine tops of trees will be entirely superseded. We 

 shall obtain at once, what the art, as hitherto prac- 

 tised, has not been able to obtain for us, the Imme- 

 diate and Full effect of Wood, that is. Trees com- 

 plete and perfect in all their parts, without the 

 loss of the time required to replace the parts so de- 

 faced and mutilated." — " And if such a mode of 

 execution be superinduced upon it, as shall furnish 

 to the tree a competent supply of sap at the critical 

 period of removal, the art probably may be said to 

 be established on fixed principles ^ 



" Wind being, in a great degree, excluded in un- 

 thinned plantation, and evaporation prevented, heat 

 is, by consequence, generated in an undue degree. 



