TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 



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Fruit Trees," with the addition of the iron 

 filings only. The tree was removed early 

 in the month of April, and ripened, the same 

 year, some forty fine pears, and grew well. 

 The next season it bore nearly as many 

 pears as it ever bore in one year previous 

 to its removal ; and this year, 1848, it will 

 doubtless bear and ripen a larger quantity 

 of pears than it ever has in any previous 

 season. 



Salt, as an article of manure for the 

 •plum tree, I have long known to be valua- 

 ble, and have used to considerable extent. 

 I shall give you, this fall, the result of se- 



veral experiments which I am making with 

 salt, charcoal, &c.; for I believe a little 

 more practical knowledge only is wanted, 

 by many of our agriculturists, to place the 

 plum, the pear, and the peach, in all their 

 varieties and richness, within the pale of 

 every kitchen garden. Yours truly. 



L. Wyman, Je. 



West Cambridge, Mass., April, 1848. 



[The foregoing is precisely to the point, 

 and is also exactly the kind of evidence that 

 we are most desirous of placing before our 

 readers on this important subject. Ed.] 



ON TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 



BY T. A. S., SYRACUSE, N Y. 



The mode of transplanting evergreens, re- 

 commended in your last number, by Mr. 

 Bartlett, resembles, somewhat, one adopt- 

 ed by myself a few years since, and which 

 was attended with similar favorable results. 

 Mr. Bartlett, however, like his predeces- 

 sor, Mr. Thomas, has failed to give the 

 principle on which his practice is founded, 

 which gives to the subject the appearance 

 of a successful experiment merely. By your 

 leave I will supply that omission, and state 

 the results of my experience, with the cau- 

 ses of both success and failure. My modus 

 operandi, too, differs a little from that of 

 Mr. B.; but that little leaves the process 

 independent of the coincidence o{ a. freezing 

 night, and the operator at liberty to perform 

 his work when it suits his convenience, in 

 the proper season for transplanting. 



The difficulty in removing evergreens 

 lies in the extreme delicacy of their roots, 

 and the fatal injury they are liable to re- 

 ceive from exposure to the sun and air. It 

 is stated by Loudon, that by the exposure 



of their roots, the extremities of their fibres, 

 the spongioles become closed ; and, unlike 

 deciduous trees, when once closed, they never 

 again expand, or perform their proper func- 

 tions. That evergreen, therefore, whose 

 roots have been exposed but for a short 

 time to the rays of the sun, or even to the 

 atmosphere, is deprived of its means of 

 taking up nutriment ; and however well 

 planted and tended afterwards, its death is 

 certain. It may survive for a time, exist- 

 ing on its present supply of aliment and 

 a small portion, perhaps, drawn from the 

 atmosphere through its leaves and the pores 

 of the branches and body, but the result is 

 inevitable. This theory, or principle, seems 

 abundantly sustained by my own observa- 

 tion and experience. 



In the fall of 1844, I wished to plant 

 about 160 feet of hedge, of the White Ce- 

 dar. A trench was dug 20 inches in width 

 and depth, and filled half way with the soil 

 removed, mixed with an equal portion of 

 that from which the cedars were to be 



