MARCH 23. 1S99. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



409 



House of new rose Lady Dorothea, at John H. Dunlop's, Toronto, Ont. Photographed Dec. 30, J898. 



tive. they are really hibernating and 

 survive the change of location and 

 ruthless treatment of transplanting 

 ■with little harm if properly done, but 

 "When the April showers and sun ar- 

 rive the sap ascends, the buds swell. 

 the tips of the roots, called fibers, are 

 searching for food, then you cannot 

 transplant without giving the tree a 

 shock. You have destroyed the finest 

 roots, the roots that nourished the tree 

 and as you expect the tree to make 

 another lot of active roots you must 

 give them less work to do, that is why 

 pruning is so essential. Contrary to 

 the rule that all shrubs and trees that 

 are deciduous should be moved be- 

 fore active growth begins, evergreens. 

 so called, should not be transplanted 

 till they are in active growth. In 

 Europe what are known as evergreens 

 are the common laurel. Laurus nobilis 

 (Sweet Bay), arbutus, holly, aueuba, 

 rhododendrons and many more broad- 

 leafed true evergreens; and the pines, 

 spruces and all cone-bearing trees are 

 known as conifers. Here in this 

 broad northern land we have few 

 hardy representatives of the broad- 

 leaved evergreens, so we call the coni- 

 fers evergreens. Kalmia latifolia, our 

 native mountain shrub, and Mahonia 

 aquifolia are types of the broad-leaf 

 «vergreen, neither of much use here. 

 The mahonia gets fearfully burnt with 



the zero nights and bright suns of 

 March, and the kalmia seldom thrives 

 when removed from its native rocky 

 home. The best time to transplant all 

 the conifers, we will take the Norway 

 spruce as a familiar type, is just when 

 they are beginning to make their 

 young growth. It has sent a cold chill 

 down my back many times to see a lot 

 of evergreens handled in April. In 

 our latitude the time of planting ever- 

 greens is usually from the middle to 

 end of May. 



While animal manure may be in- 

 jurious to the young feeding roots of 

 a conifer when first transplanted, don't 

 think for a moment that they don't 

 like it when well established. I have 

 forked in stable manure around an 

 Austrian pine and Norway spruce and 

 in two years with the intention of do- 

 ing the same found the ground just a 

 mass of roots close to the surface. And 

 another fallacy is that our conifers 

 don't like pruning. While not in sym- 

 pathy with the monstrosities of 

 clipped hedges and worse forms it is 

 highly beneficial to shorten back all 

 the leading shoots of any conifer, es- 

 pecially when transplanting, and, 

 finally, don't forget that the way to 

 plant any tree or shrub is to get a 

 portion of good soil round the roots, 

 enough to hold the tree in position, 

 then soak it thoroughly, wetting every 



fiber and when the water has subsid- 

 ed fill up to surface with dry earth, 

 and to still make a better job spread 

 two inches of stable litter on the sur- 

 face for a few feet round the tree or 

 shrub. It will help most wonderfully 

 to prevent evaporation and if any fu- 

 ture watering is necessary the mulch- 

 ing will make the surface watering nt 

 a lasting benefit, which without it 

 would be little better than water on a 

 duck's back. WILLIAM SCOTT. 



AMONG PHILADELPHIA GROWERS. 



W. K. Harris. 



Here is the home of the winter 

 flowering plant and an immense num- 

 ber is in preparation for the annual 

 Easter sales. Azaleas are to be seen 

 here by the houseful in various stages 

 of progress, there being always some 

 in bloom to meet current demand. 

 Rhododendrons are being more largely 

 grown to give a slight change from the 

 azalea and several now in bloom are 

 remarkably handsome, particularly 

 John Walker carmine, and Fastuosura 

 Acre plena, lavender. 



There are some Crimson Rambler 

 roses coming on for Easter that Mr. 

 Mark Mills, the able foreman, is espe- 

 cially proud of, and well he may be. 

 They are in 12-inch pots, the plants 

 6 feet tall, the four or five leading 



