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his potatoes, covering them two or three 

 inches deep in those bins intended for spring 

 use. 



I til ink the finest flowers are had from 

 good plants turned out of pots from the 20th 

 of May to the first week in June. Septem- 

 ber is the Dahlia month — "par excellence; 

 and though it is well to plant some strong 

 roots in April to come into bloom early, 

 the late planted roots will usually give 

 the purest and most perfectly formed 

 blooms. 



I will add, in conclusion, that old sorts of 

 Dahlias " wear out" in any given soil, 

 like potatoes ; that is, they do not thrive as 



well after having been grown in one gar- 

 den several years, as they did at first. It 

 does not at all follow that the variety has 

 really "run out" because this happens. 

 Take it to a new soil, and it will bloom 

 again as well as the first year the variety 

 was " let out." Hence, it is well occasion- 

 ally to change the roots of a favorite old 

 sort, as you would " change the seed" of a 

 potato. But, in fact, the Dahlias of the 

 last three years are so far superior to the 

 old varieties, that they are the only ones 

 sought after at present. Yours. 



An Amateur. 



New-York, MaylOth, 1848. 



TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 



A. J. Downing, Esq. — Having recently been 

 looking over the numbers of the current vo- 

 lume of " The Horticulturist,'''' I have been 

 ex'-eedingly interested with several articles, 

 from highly respectable cultivators in dif- 

 ferent sections, on " Transplanting Eveii- 

 greens." It is a subject which certainly 

 ought to meet with altogether more atten- 

 tion than it does at present from every cul- 

 tivator ; for no rural spot, whether it be the 

 environs of home, the public promenade, or 

 the cool and refreshing park, can be perfect 

 without them. They give beauty to the 

 scenery wherever they are found. Not 

 only by their beautiful symmetry, but by 

 the contrast they afford in their rich and 

 unfading foliage, — differing so widely in 

 form in their own family, and so varied 

 from that of deciduous trees. In spring, 

 they are lovely ; in summer, beautiful ; in 

 autumn, when maturity spreads its varie- 

 gated colours over the forest and the grove, 

 to give interest to the decay of nature, they 



BY W. BACO.\, RICHMOND, MASS. 



smile at biting frosts and cheerless winds ; 

 and when winter comes, " in her terrors 

 clad," they stand unchanged, amid howl- 

 ing blasts, and pitiless storms, and driving 

 snows, like " the friend that is born for ad- 

 versity.^' Who does not admire them, and 

 who would not cultivate them ? 



It is a sad fact, and one that we hope 

 will soon be exchanged for a better truth, 

 that many neglect all attempts at the culti- 

 vation of evergreens, from an impression 

 that the risk is greater in their removal 

 than that which usually attends the process 

 on deciduous trees. Another reason which 

 some will give, is, that they have attempted 

 to cultivate them and failed, and they will, 

 therefore, spend no more time in the mat- 

 ter. 



As it regards the first objection, we must 

 say, from our personal experience, that tve 

 will as soon risk success in their removal as 

 in that of any tree whatever, (unless it be 

 the willow, or some of the species that can 



