Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...being transplanted, ought to be raised from the acorn in the place where it is intended to remain. The methods of cultivating it, therefore, which have hitherto been practised in Scotland, and as far as I know in other countries, are radically wrong. The least exceptionable of these is as follows:--When a piece of waste land is to be planted, oaks are procured from the nursery of from three to five years old, having been previously transplanted. Holes, or pits as they are termed, are then made with the spade, at about four feet distance from one another; into these the roots of the plants are inserted and covered with earth. Now, Since writing this work, I have learned, that the plan of raising oaks from the acorns, in the spots where they are intended to remain, has been recommended by authority far superior to mine, viz. by Dr Yule, in the Horticultural Memoirs, and by Mr Sang in the Planter's Calendar. O it is admitted that this mode of proceeding would he liable to few or no objections, could the oak, like the ash, beech, and elm, be transplanted without injury. The pitting system enables the planter to make sufficient space to contain the roots, without either doubling or pruning them too closely; it makes the fixing of them an easy matter, and by effectually loosening the earth, takes away any obstruction which rflfght arise from hardness to the pushing of fibres. It is only fair, therefore, to allow, that could oaks at all bear transplantation, scarcely any better mode of executing it, especially in waste land, could be devised, than the one just mentioned. But if, as we have already seen, that operation, when performed in the most approved manner, is attended with the most deleterious effects even in the nursery, the consequences following it in the...
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