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by some that timothy will also change. The one change is just as 

 likely to take place as the other; but is it not most strange, apart 

 from all other considerations, that two plants, so different as wheat 

 and timothy, should each change regularly into another and the 

 same plant? If the ground was clear, the notion that timothy 

 changes would soon be exploded. 



Chess is probably a hardier plant than wheat, and thus flourishes 

 where wheat has been frozen out, or, from any other cause, has not 

 grown well. It seems to commence its growth later in the spring, 

 so that where the wheat is good, it is choked, and makes little show ; 

 but where the wheat has been injured, the small stalks spread into 

 large stools, and produce abundantly. The same result follows 

 where the seed sown has been partially picked up by birds, or left 

 uncovered and perished. 



Such a change is contradictory to all known chemical principles, 

 and as inconsistent with reason as that a walnut tree should bear 

 oranges, or a fig tree produce oysters. Yours, respectfully, 



£rooJcville, Ind. Jos. Brady. 



PLANTING TREES IN THE FALL. 



"Do you approve of fall planting?" is a question asked us every 

 day. Our answer is, yes, under these circumstances : 



1st. When the ground is of such nature, and in such condition 

 that water will not lodge around the roots of trees during winter, — 

 To plant trees in holes sunk in stiff tenacious soils, is a certain 

 method of killing them. 



2d. The trees should be perfectly hardy. All delicate or half- 

 hardy trees should invariably be planted in the spring. If it be 

 necessary to take up in the fall, they had better be laid in by the 

 roots in a dry soil, sheltered from the cold cutting winds, and, if 

 necessary, protected with plenty of boughs of evergreen, or some- 

 thing of that nature. 



3d. We do not approve of planting evergreen trees in the fall, 

 unless the very hardiest sort, and that quite early, say to September 

 or first of October, in time for the trees to re-root, partially, before 

 hard frosts and they should be sheltered from the sun and wind by 

 a thick screen of evergreen-boughs, well secured around them. 



