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CONTENTS. 



SECTION IX. 



PLANTING OF THE TREES IN THEIR NEW SITUATIONS. 



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Great importance of moving slowly along the ground. Shallow 

 planting earnestly recommended. — Director of the work. Judg- 

 ment to be shown by him in reversing and bringing the proper 

 side of the tree to windward. Only way in which art can 

 greatly improve the beauty of woody plants. — Easy method of 

 attaining accuracy in placing trees. — Further details of the 

 planting. — Bolstering up of the roots. Method of forming the 

 retaining-bank. Use of props and supports entirely superseded. — 

 Nicety and difficulty of the process of distribution. Handlers 

 and coverers. Particular detail of this process. — Importance of 

 bringing about a gradual subsidence of the mould not generally 

 understood. Decalcation of the mould unadvisable, until the 

 covering be finished. — Great difficulty in getting these operations 

 performed leisurely enough. Not easily apprehended by verbal 

 description. — Success of the preservative system mainly depend- 

 ent on the retaining-bank, and preserving the fibres undisturbed. 

 Superiority of the system. No tree ever blown down at Allanton 

 House ; deaths^ one in forty ^ and five-and-forty, — New method 

 of composing underwood, for close or ornamental plantations. 204-224. 



SECTION X. 



TREATMENT OF THE TREES SUBSEQUENTLY TO REMOVAL. 



Singular utility and importance of afterwork. I. For open 

 dispositions of wood. " Shows" the best covering for trees. 

 Levelling and dressing the surface. Graceful shape of the 

 ground, in prominent situations, to be studied. — Management 

 of the shows round trees. Keeping the ground with the 

 hoe not necessary; better practice recommended for park- 

 wood. — Sheep the most beautiful and useful stock for a park. 

 Defences against them usually hideous, as well as expensive. 

 Efficient and economical plan of a guard for trees, (see plate II. 

 anteJi.) — Watering during the first season an indispensable part 

 of afterwork. Water-cart. — Backwardness in the growth of 

 trees an obscure subject, little understood by planters. — New 

 mode of remedying that evil. Panacean compost. Juices from 



