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of any other person in the country. Last 

 season, when we examined his interesting 

 garden, near Boston, we were particularly 

 struck by the trees alluded to in this article. 

 Some of them had been transplanted in 

 full leaf the same season ; others the pre- 

 vious summer; yet, to our astonishment, 

 they had as luxuriant, and almost as fruit- 

 ful an appearance as if they had never been 

 disturbed. 



Our readers will be struck with the appa- 

 rent simplicity of Mr. Perkins' process. We 

 may remark, however, that it is the simpli- 

 city of profound knowledge. Novices, 

 therefore, ought to be told that it is supposed 

 by so skilful a practical man as our corres- 

 pondent, that the transplanter who under- 

 takes to follow his mode, is a man who 

 knows his business, and has the same re- 

 spect (or fibrous roots, that a pious monk of 

 the fifteenth century had for a fragment of 

 the true cross. 



We have never heard of any success on 

 the other side of the Atlantic in transplant- 

 ing trees in full growth. Notwithstanding 

 this, and the fact that our climate is by no 

 means a very favorable one for transplant- 

 ing, Mr. Perkins' success, by this — his own 

 mode, is complete and satisfactory. Though 

 it may not be of such general utility, as to 

 take the place of spring and autumn plant- 

 ing, yet there are numerous instances where 

 it will be of great value. — Ed.] 



Dear Sir — In the spring of 1844, 1 intend- 

 ed to remove a small pear tree from my pri- 

 vate nursery to one of the quarters in my gar- 

 den ; but being too much out of health to 

 attend to my garden, I forgot or neglected 

 to have it done. 



The latter part of May, when the trees 

 were in full leaf, I was passing through my 

 grounds, and casting my eye on the tree in 

 question, it brought to mind my omission, 



and that I had lost a year in filling up the 

 spot in the quarter where I intended to plant 

 it. The tree was very vigorous, about four 

 and a half or five feet high, grafted on a 

 quince stock, and of a kind of which I had 

 no duplicate ; and I was, therefore, desirous 

 of giving it a better situation than the one 

 it occupied. While thinking of my blunder, 

 it occurred to me that the tree might be re- 

 moved then, in full leaf, if proper care was 

 used in preparing it beforehand. I accord- 

 ingly called my man " Patrick," and direct- 

 ed him to cut a trench round the tree as 

 deep as its roots went into the ground, and 

 about three or four inches wide. This be- 

 ing done, I had the trench filled with water, 

 and covered over to prevent the earth from 

 getting into it. In this state the tree was 

 left between thirty and forty hours, when 

 the ball of earth round its roots was found 

 to be very firm and solid, so that the tree 

 could be removed with perfect security ; 

 and it was actually done with perfect suc- 

 cess, so much so that ihe tree never stopped 

 growing, and made considerable wood dur- 

 ing the summer. I soon after, about June 

 1st, removed several other pear, peach, and 

 apricot trees with the most complete success. 



Encouraged by this success, I removed on 

 the 18th of June, 1844, ten trees to a trellis 

 that I had recently made, viz., four plums, 

 four peaches, and two apricots, all of which 

 grew rapidly that year, and so filled the 

 trellis, that I was obliged to take the peaches 

 away this summer, 1845, in the early part 

 of August, and place them on another trellis 

 which 1 had built. 



I continued, during the summer of 1844, 

 to remove trees in full leaf, and some with 

 the fruit on them, until the middle of Sep- 

 tember, and out of seventy-six trees removed 

 I lost only six — seventy having succeeded 

 perfectly. One tree that was removed con- 

 trary to my advice, after having been pre- 



