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wise have succeeded, and of which 1 have seen more than 

 one instance in the present year, 1827. 



On some occasions I have attempted the watering of 

 entire plants, branches as well as roots, with a good 

 garden-engine ; hj which means it was easy to throw the 

 water in copious showers to the tops of our highest trees. 

 But no benefit adequate to the labour was found to result 

 from it. The absorption of dew by the leaves, even in 

 the driest season, added to an absorption by the roots in 

 consequence of abundant waterings, appears quite adequate 

 to continue vegetation during the critical period of the 

 first summer. If the introsusception of their food by the 

 roots is not prevented from going forward, there seems 

 little danger in the other parts of the process. 



Gardeners usually recommend that all artificial water- 

 ings should be performed with the watering-pan, as more 

 accurately imitating the genial rains as they descend from 

 the clouds. That this is a superior method cannot be 

 doubted, and for the nicer business of horticulture, it may 

 in many cases be indispensable. But in field practice, 

 which is often less delicate, and far more extensive, des- 

 patch is so vast an object, that such implements as the 

 watering-pan are quite inadmissible. As a proof in how 

 far our field practice has been successful, it may be stated, 

 that during last summer, (1826,) when the severity as 

 well as the continuance of the drought was, it is beheved, 

 beyond all example, oiily one removed tree in more than 

 a hundred died at this place, although several bushes 

 failed, and particularly of the evergreen species ; and to 

 this it may be added, as a very striking circumstance, 

 that more than three-fourths of the number were Beeches 

 and Oaks ! For such extraordinary success, in restoring 

 and continuing vegetation after removal, I chiefly account, 

 from the care and regularity with which the water was 



