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fashion of a greenhouse stage, the shelves of tile or stone, or coal ashes, 

 with rough rockery in masses to hide the pots, would be a new and 

 pleasing feature as a garden decoration, and serve at the same time as a 

 means of ripening the wood of large furnishing plants, instead of hiding 

 them away among the pits and sheddings. But here Ave are opening the 

 way to quite another subject, whicn must have detailed attention at a 

 future time. 



Plant at once anything and everything in the way of hardy trees and 

 shrubs. There is no real occasion to wait for the fall of the leaf where 

 it is possible to get plants quickly from the nurseries, or where they have 

 only to be removed from one part of a garden to another. It is a good 

 rule to wait for the fall of the leaf, because most trees and shrubs required 

 for private gardens have first to travel long journeys, and if taken up 

 before the plants get to rest, by the descent of the sap, they may suffer 

 exhaustion ; but in all cases where the distance between the plots they 

 occupy and those in which they are to be planted is short, this is a 

 better time than at any other in the year. To encourage the timid in 

 the early removal of trees and shrubs, we can say that we have been per- 

 forming such operations during every month since March last. Standard 

 and dwarf roses planted then have done amazingly well, both as to growth 

 and bloom. Americans put in in March, after flowering magnificently, 

 have made extraordinary growth, as they have indeed wherever they are 

 doing any good at all, owing to the wetness of the season. In some 

 places they are making a second growth, to the ruin of next year's bloom, 

 and in some the bark is splitting along the stems through the gorged state 

 of the sap vessels. Every tree and shrub in such a condition will be the 

 better for lifting, even if it is simply taken up and put into the same hole 

 again ; the check will help to ripen the wood, and enable them the better 

 to endure the winter. On the 31st of July we moved a long row of ever- 

 green shrubs, including Minorca holly, Berberis fascicularis, intermedia, 

 Nepalensis, Darwinii, Portuni, and dulcis, several daphnes, Prinos lucida, 

 and Americans of many kinds. On the same day we moved a number of 

 deciduous trees and shrubs, including Pavia coccinea, a fine specimen, 

 five years from the graft ; Spirea pruni folia, Rhus cotinus, and a lot of 

 perpetual, cabbage, noisette, and China roses. The roses were in full bloom ; 

 not a bloom was removed, and, of course, they were not taken up with 

 balls. They did not flag an hour, and are now loaded with blossoms as 

 if nothing had happened to them. This is an exceptional season, but 

 what we did in July, 1860, may be done any year in September, provided 

 that in case of hot dry weather setting in, the moving is deferred for a 

 Aveek or so till more favourable ; or if determined on, in spite of hot 

 weather, proper precautions are taken to secure the roots from being- 

 exhausted, and a little syringing adopted over the foliage until rain comes. 

 This season there will be no need of syringe, and no need of water at the 

 root. All the trees and shrubs operated on as above described are now in 

 most perfect health, and will have abundance of new fibres long before 

 winter, and next year be just one season in advance of those planted in 

 the spring. There are many fallacies prevalent as to planting trees and 

 «hrubs. Most evergreens move with good balls, and there is no need to 

 injure the roots at alL But good balls are by no means essential, and i$ 



