THE planter's guide. 



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As it is equally important, though not nearly so difficult, 

 to preserve close or enclosed plantations from suffering by 

 drought, as open dispositions of wood, shows must be laid 

 upon the roots in the former, by the middle of May at 

 the latest, and before the summer droughts set in. For 

 this work, the same method is to be followed as that pre- 

 scribed for single trees ; only, should your stock of shows 

 be not abundant, the allowance may be decreased by a 

 thu'd part for the trees, and by the one half for the 

 underwood. In respect to watering, it is to be done in a 

 similar manner every fourth day, as pointed out for 

 detached trees, but not so copiously as in the case of the 

 latter, for the reasons already assigned, and because those 

 trees are much more exposed to the action of the 

 atmosphere. 



During the first season, the cultivation of the ground is 

 of small moment; but, without displacing the shows, it 

 may be hoed in the intervals. In the second year, the 

 entire surface is to be lightly pointed over with the spade, 

 and carefally kept with the hoe, until the plants shoot 

 freely. From the superiority of this factitious cHmate, 

 and other propitious circumstances, the plants very readily 

 become established in the ground ; and in point of growth, 

 they will soon outstrip all your other plantations. In 

 this situation, we find no backwardness of growth, no 

 stationary symptoms in these plants, but all advance with 

 nearly equal vigour. 



From what has been said, the reader will perceive the 

 great impoi^tance of a judicious system of management for 

 a few years subsequent to the removal of trees, and above 

 all things, the perfect preservation of their health and 

 strength during the critical period of the first season. 

 The great design of afterwork, independently of that of 

 securing the plants from external injury, is to bring about 



