The Cypress. 



into plantations, the distances might be from five to six 

 feet apart ; keeping on catting out or thinning, as the 

 tre^s approach too near to the branches of each other; but 

 1 do not know that any priming would be necessary or pro- 

 per in this case. The young trees, when cut out, would 

 serve for poles or some other uses. 



214. As to cutting down, the year after planting, though 

 this is really a deciduous tree, that perhaps would not be 

 proper, and indeed I think it would not, though 1 have no 

 experience to guide me. This tree appears to be some- 

 thing between a Fir and a deciduous tree. It is resinous, and 

 I do not know whether, if cut down, it would throw out any 

 shoots at all. Great care must therefore be taken, that the 

 young plants do not lose their leading shoots, or, if they do, 

 to see that they have another leader as quickly as possible. 

 They are very apt to be nipped by the frosts in the seed- 

 bed, which is of not much consequence if you cut off the 

 dead part with a sharp knife, and make your cut sloping 

 opposite a bud, so that a new leader may come the 

 second year. 



215. This tree, as well as the Cedars and all evergreens^ 

 ought to be moved either early in the fall or late in the 

 spring, and with great care, kept out of the ground as short 

 a time as possible, and the roots not exposed to the sun or 

 to the Vv'ind. In the case of deciduous trees in general, it 

 does not signify much, if the tops of them be insufficiently 

 supplied with sap the first year ; because the next year they 

 are to be cut down to the ground, and the root will have 

 got strength sufficient to send up new shoots and put every 

 thing to rights. This is not the case with Evergreens : if 

 they be cut down, the root instantly dies. For this reason, 

 also, there must be vet^y little pruning of the roots in these 



