The Plane. 



out, and tliey ^vill, I dare say, be very fine plants by tbe 

 next fall. In this manner they will stand in the seed-bed, 

 at less than an inch apart. A small space will give you 

 thousands and thousands of plants, at the expense of a very 

 , few shillings. 



476. As to the treatment of the plants after the seed-bed, 

 they should be put into a niu'sery in the manner directed 

 for the Ash. They have excellent roots, move without 

 risk, strike off at once ; and if, by early frosts or some other 

 accident, the leading shoot be injured, you have only to cut 

 off the injured part, down to the first live bud you come to : 

 another leader comes immediately ; the little crook that is 

 made by the change of the leader is completely grown out 

 the first year, and the tree grows up as straight as a rush. 

 These trees might stand one year or even two in the 

 nursery, before being finally planted out ; but they should 

 not stand longer, if you mean to have straight and beautiful 

 trees. Whether planted in clumps or in single trees, there 

 must be an effectual fence extending in such a way as to be 

 at five feet distance from the trunk of the tree in every di- 

 rection. It is little short of a mark of idiocy to plant trees, 

 and especially trees for ornament, and then to turn cattle in 

 to eat them ! Yet, how often is this done ! The ground 

 ought to be kept clean until the tree attains a good height. 

 If you plant large trees, they must and they will be leaning 

 trees. The wind will make them take a leaning posture, 

 before the root be sufficiently powerful to cause them to 

 stand in an erect attitude. The roots of trees are their 

 foundations, their buttresses, their spurs ; and if these do 

 not come until after the tree begins to lean on one side, 

 they will indeed prevent it from falling, as an old wall is 

 prevented from falling by buttresses placed against it; but, 

 as these will never make the wall to stand upright, so the 



