Fig. 5. 



Yl&lTS TO COUNTRY PLACES. 



root, a, has had the means of penetrating deeper into the soil, and, consequently, 

 been able to collect a greater amount of 

 sap food, the annular rings above it are 

 larger, and more uniform in size. Sick- 

 liness, deformity, and premature death 

 are the results. The greatest care should 

 be employed, in planting such a specimen, 

 to disentangle and spread the roots care- 

 fully. The Cedar of Lebanon is frequently 

 planted from pots, and this is one reason 

 we see such poor specimens in this 

 country. 



Where the corkscrew, or spiral direc- 

 tion has been once taken by the roots, 

 they are very apt to retain it during their 

 lives ; and if, when they have become 

 large trees, they are exposed to a gale 

 of wind, they readily blow out of the 

 ground, as was continually the case with 

 a number of rare evergreens formerly 

 kept for sale in pots. To prevent the 

 possibility of this occurrence, it is a good 

 plan to place trees intended for trans- 

 plantation in old baskets. Through 

 their wicker sides the roots readily pene- 

 trate, and when this has happened, the 

 half-decayed baskets are lifted, and 

 " potted" in other baskets, of a larger 

 size. 



The adjoining cut (Fig. 5) is a sketch of a root of a Laricio after having been 

 planted ten years, illustrating the effects of corkscrewing better than any descrip- 

 tion. 



VISITS TO COUNTRY PLACES, NO. 2. 

 AROUND NEW YORK. 



Taking a carriage at New Brighton, we first called upon Mr. William Chorlton, 

 an esteemed correspondent, gardener to John C. Greene, Esq. Mr. Chorlton has 

 under his charge twelve acres, two acres of which are vegetable garden, four 

 acres pleasure-grounds, consisting of lawns, flower-bed, and shrubberies, and six 

 acres of pasture-land and meadows, that supply three cows with food the year 

 round. The whole is in the nicest order, sufficiently so to satisfy the most fastidious. 

 The views of the Bay of New York are exquisitely beautiful, and advantage is 

 judiciously taken, in the planting, to conceal defects, and open the finest vistas. 

 Altogether, the scene about the house presents an appearance of rural luxury and 

 ease, and though so near to neighbors as the place is, it is, for all purposes of 

 privacy, complete. 



There are four plant houses, from which are produced a very fine show of regu- 

 lar succession flowers. The camellia house is seventy-eight feet long, and is filled 

 with large and fine plants, from which were cut, last winter, some four thousand 

 flowers. The vineries are devoted to the grape entirely, and produce an average 

 500 pounds of the finest quality, which have always taken the first prizes 



