Season and Weather. 



size and condition) find the former take root and make pro- 

 gress several days sooner tlian the hitter. The reason of this 

 is, that, whenever the ground is moved, a fermentation takes 

 place ; all its energies are put in motion ; and those ener- 

 gies operate on the plant. Seed, sown in fresh- moved 

 ground, will come up much quicker, than if raked into ground 

 in any degree stale. 



41. However, knowing what is Lest, we must, in the case 

 of extensive planting, content ourselves with coming as 

 near to it as circumstances will permit us. A planter has 

 not an army at his command : he must take the hands that 

 the neighbourhood affords him, and must do his work when 

 he can. But, the trenching ought to be done as near 

 to the time of planting as circumstances will admit; and if 

 you be comji^lled to trench at any considerable time before- 

 harid, you ought to dig all the ground again when you 

 plant. 



42. If the weather be open and dry, you may plant at 

 any time between September and April; and even to the end 

 of April, if you take great care as to the manner of doing it. 

 Evergreens, however, should go out early in the autumn or 

 late in the spring; and there are some evergreens that are 

 worth great attention. 



43. Never plant in ivet weather, nor when the ground is 

 ivet, if you can possibly avoid it. The ground never ought 

 to be either moved, or walked upon, when it is wet at the 

 top. But, we are frequently compelled to do both, or to leave 

 our work wholly undone. It is a very great error to suppose, 

 that plants take root quicker for being planted in wet wea- 

 ther. The contrary is the fact. One great thing is, to 

 make the earth that goes close to the roots ^?ie; and this 



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