362 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BLUEBERRY IN THE GARDEN. 



A correspondent of the Fruit Recorder says he has grown the high blueberry 

 in Maine for forty years profitably, and considers it one of the most promising 

 market fruits. The fruit is larger, finer, and richer than the low blueberry. 

 The bushes grow thrifty, throwing up strong shoots ten or twelve feet high in 

 a few years. It does not require high culture nor very rich ground. It wants 

 plenty of sun, and succeeds best on high, dry soil. I have always transplanted 

 my bushes from the wild state, but presume they could be profitably grown in 

 the nursery. 



PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING. 



TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



I planted a lot of seedling spruces and balsams ten years ago in a very stiff or 

 heavy clay soil. In three or four years I transplanted half of them, which op- 

 eration root-pruned both those that were removed and those that remained. 

 The job was well done, and not a tree lost. Fibrous roots were made, and when 

 I am setting them a ball of earth envelops the roots and I never lose any trees. 

 One year ago I took up a nice spruce, six or seven feet high, and left it stand- 

 ing on the sod with nothing to protect it but the ball of earth, and it has re- 

 mained there ever since, and is still sound and good, although we had the worst 

 drought I ever saw. We can put one of those trees in a wagon and drive twenty 

 miles; the tree will stand straight up and be sure to grow. But you can't do 

 this with trees grown in the sand ; the dirt will all fall off and the roots get dry 

 and have to be kept moist, especially those of large trees. I have successfully 

 moved trees twelve feet high with a ball of earth that would weigh )i00 to 300 

 pounds. Some people, in giving directions for transplanting, say, dig the hole 

 a little deeper than the tree stood in the nursery. But this won't do in a heavy 

 clay soil, unless the ground is well drained, because the hole will fill up with 

 water and drown the tree ; even a fish may be drowned. But in removing trees 

 from a clay soil to a sandy soil the advice is good, because it is impossible to 

 drown a tree in any well-drained soil. Sometimes, in planting, I set the tree 

 on the surface of the ground and fetch soil to cover the roots, and I very sel- 

 dom lose a tree. — E. A. lioby, Kent Co., Mich., in N. Y. Tribune. 



WHAT KILLS FRUIT TREES. 



Some time ago Josiah Hoopes, in an address before the Pennsylvania Fruit 

 Growers' Association, made the following excellent remarks on planting fruit 

 trees: "Deep planting is an error; to plant a tree rather shallower than it 

 formerly stood is really the right way, whilst many plant a tree as they would 

 a post. Roots are of two kinds — the young and tender rootlets, composed en- 



