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TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 



By half-trenching the ground before 

 planting out strawberries, as I have just ex- 

 plained, I find that my crop of strawberries 

 is certain in years when those in untrenched 

 ground prove a partial failure, and that 

 moreover the berries are uniformly larger 

 and higher flavored. 



The kinds of Strawberry which I culti- 

 vate and approve most are, 1st. Large Ear- 

 ly Scarlet, as valuable for its earliness and 

 excellence ; 2. Hoveifs Seedling, among 

 the best of the large berries : 3, Boston 

 Pine, an excellent fruit; and 4. the Old 

 English Red Wood, one of the greatest 

 bearers, and most delicate flavored, and 

 which bears much later than any other. 



Notwithstanding what your correspondent, 

 Mr. LoNGWORTH, and others say to the dis- 

 credit of staminate varieties, I know from 

 jexperience, that sonae staminate sorts, and 



among them the Boston Pine, bear excel- 

 lent crops with the culture I have pointed 

 out. It is probable enough that in a rough 

 way and left to itself, it may not yield so 

 heavily as pistillate sorts will with the same 

 neglect ; but as I have, with half-trenching, 

 raised a better crop of it than some of my 

 neighbors have of Hovey's Seedling, and 

 as I prefer the flavor of the Boston Pine, I 

 shall not give it up on account of the pre- 

 sent clamor against strawberry plants that 

 bear stamens. 



I find that pistillate sorts, like Hovey's 

 Seedling, when planted in alternate strips 

 with the Large Early 3carlet, are always 

 well fertilized without any admixture of 

 staminates in the same strips with them- 

 selves. I am very respectfully yours, etc. 

 A Suburban Grower. 



Boston, Aug. 2, 1817. 



ON TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 



BY ANDREW SAUL, HIGHLAND NURSERIES, NEWBURGH. 



Which js the best season of the ye^r for 

 transplanting evergreens ? is a question, al- 

 most dajly debated, and as there are some 

 persons who have succeeded in getting ever- 

 greens to live, when transplanted at this 

 season (August,) who previously failed in 

 spring planting, they arrive at the conclusion 

 that August is the best season for trans- 

 planting evergreens. 



While we are perfectly satisfied that 

 evergreens can be transplanted \n August, 

 or indeed at almost any other season of the 

 year so as to live and thrive after\yardSj yet 

 experience has satisfied us that the spring 

 is, all things considered, the best season for 

 performing that operation in this climate, 



In the first place, in many evergreens, 

 the young wood and foliage is in a more 



immature state, and it requires great care 

 to preserve their respiratory organs, which 

 are always in more active operation in the 

 warm summer months, than in the cooler 

 spring months, after being transplanted, by 

 shading, watering, etc. And in the next 

 place rains are less prevalent in August than 

 April, while from the great evaporation 

 going on in the high temperature of mid- 

 surnmer, wioisture in a hundred-fold more 

 is required. 



The fact of a person succeeding in mak- 

 ing a tree live by moving it in August, 

 when he had previously failed to make the 

 same kind of tree live by transplanting it 

 in April, does not prove the former to be 

 the better season for transplanting. Gene- 

 rally persons transplanting ii> spring bestow 



