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labor, arc devoted to the operation.* All our native evergreens, 

 we think, may be safely transplanted, if in digging, a portion of 

 the soil is removed with the roots. There is one class of decid- 

 uous trees which we much dislike, viz., the poplars. 



Some of them are attacked by borers and nearly or quite all 

 of them sucker badly. The abele, even, we would not use 

 except in particular localities. Our native white ash when 

 planted in the cities, makes a clean and fine looking tree, but is 

 liable when thus located, to be attacked and destroyed by borers. 

 In the country where birds are more plenty, we have never 

 known a failure from such source. 



Among the imported trees which endure the rigors of our 

 New England winters are the Scotch larch, Norway and syca- 

 more maples and Norway spruce, the latter one of the very best 

 evergreen trees. There are others which are hardy, also, and 

 many which will not endure our climate, but which thrive a few 

 degrees south of us. There is no lack in variety or quantity of 

 deciduous or evergreen trees for all practical purposes for which 

 transplanting is resorted to. We ought to have mentioned in 

 another connection that trees which cast their foliage in autumn 

 should, at the time of planting, have the branches that are 

 inclined to straggle cut back, and the head brought into symmet- 

 rical form. If the roots are few in number or cut off short, let 

 the branches be shortened correspondingly. 



We have frequently . planted rows of elms and sugar-maples 

 directly from the forests, which had, before cutting off the heads, 

 much of a fishing-rod resemblance, but, after planting, were 

 more the pattern of a bean-pole. Those trees are always fur- 

 nished with dormant eyes, or little buds which never would 

 push unless forced to do so. They may be discovered at the 

 base of the branches along the main stem, remaining in the 

 same position many years, or until induced to grow, through a 

 loss of branches or the top of the tree. Some of the best rows 

 of trees within our knowledge were produced in that way. 



It has always seemed surprising to. us that so little interest 

 should be manifested by landholders, generally, hi relation to 



* Alluding to the hickories reminds us of an error tliat occurred in. the 

 published report last year, upon the '« management of forest trees " in remarks 

 upon the hickory family, where we wrote " bittemut " the printer made us &ay 

 butternut, which is a great mistake in a small way. 



