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recommencement of organic action. We have found 

 that trees which had remained months out of ground, 

 and were planted in March, succeed better than 

 trees removed immediately from their old site to 

 their new, both being planted with equal care in 

 the same ground at the same time. The latter ac- 

 quired half developed leaves early in April, which 

 withered from deficiency of root-suction ; and it was 

 only with attention that we succeeded in causing 

 them to bud forth anew and acquire leaves about 

 midsummer ; in several, we stimulated the root- 

 suction by application of heated water, covering up 

 with litter to retain the heat. The former were se- 

 veral weeks more backward in leafing, and when the 

 buds burst, the ground had become warm enough 

 for root'StriMng, and the vegetation proceeded with- 

 out check. Sir Henry will say, that the check sus- 

 tained by those which leafed early, was owing to 

 the numbing effect of the cold spring wind, and of 

 the cold of evaporation on the sap-vessels of the 

 stem ; but we had caused several of them to be 

 wrapped round the stem with soft straw-ropes, and 

 this did not prevent the shrivelling of the leaves, al- 

 though it certainly protected the sap-vessels from 

 the cold. This withering of the leaves of trans- 

 planted trees, by which large transplanted trees so 



