The Per SIMON. 



458. It is a very bold plant ; but, the beds ought never- 

 theless to be kept perfectly clean from weeds. If this be 

 done, and if the ground be good, they will be from six to 

 eight inches high in the month of October. In November, 

 or in the succeeding month of March, they ought to go into 

 the nursery, in the manner described in the case of the 

 Ash, and at the same distances ; but, though the root is 

 very bushy, and has nothing of sap belonging to it, the 

 plants must be removed with great care, to guard against 

 the influence of sun or wind ; because, this is a hard-wooded 

 plant ; and all such plants, except the Locust, as far as 

 I know, require particular care in transplanting. They 

 might stand two years in the nursery, unless you perceived 

 them to make good shoots the first year 5 for unless you 

 see a shoot made by the plant, you may be assured that the 

 root has not done much in the way of shooting. 



459. When they have stood two years at most in the 

 nursery, they ought to go to the spot Where they are finally 

 to stand. Most likely few persons would ever think of 

 Persimons except for clumps, for lofty shrubberies, or for 

 independent trees. If put into clumps, they might stand 

 at about six feet apart at first, and be thinned out when 

 their want of sufficient room required it. If any one, ever 

 should think of making a little wood of Persimons, they 

 might be planted in rows of ten feet apart, the plants at 

 ten feet apart in the row, and those in the one row 

 standing opposite the middle of the intervals of the other 

 row. There then would come a row of Hazel or of 

 Birch at five feet apart between each two rows of the Per- 

 simons, and one plant of Hazel or of Birch between 

 each two Parsimons, in the Persimon rows : and thus, a 

 coppice would be going on, while the trees were growing 



