288 



DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



are iilniost scentless. With the greatest propriety 

 does tlie autlior say, that he ' feels callcil upon to 

 acknowlcilgo that lie is particularly indebted to 

 Mr. Louilon, for a large share of his work, taken 

 from the Arboretum Rritannicum, and to Dr. Thad- 

 deus W. Harris, for many valuul)le extracts from 

 his Report on the Insects of i\lassachii»ets injurious 

 to vegetation.' From the latter, copious abstracts 

 of the hig-hest interest have been very freely taken; 

 iniioed, nowhere bejond Dr. Harris's ottni volume, 

 will so large an amount of his invaluable re- 

 searches be found embodied as in Mr. Browne's 

 work. A. Gr."' 



American Fruits in Foreign Countries. — 

 We learn by a letter from William Tudoh, Esq., 

 of Boston, (well known in the four quarters of the 

 globe for his extraordinary success in supply- 

 ing Europe, Asia, and the West Indies with an 

 abundance of American ice,) that exporting our 

 finest fruits to the tropics and to far liistant ports, 

 in excellent condition, is no longer a matter of 

 experiment. 



" Ice houses and gardens," ho observes, " will 

 ere long go into alliance, as the White Doyenne 

 (St. Micluels, or Virgalieu) pear, picked here in 

 SeptemDer, has been sold in Calcutta in February 

 and March — peaches in Jamaica, and strawberries 

 in Barbadoes. The Baldwin apple is solii in good 

 condition in the East Inilies two months after it is 

 entirely gone iu the neighborhood of Boston. 

 Temperature has to do with an advance to ripe, 

 ness in a very striking degree, and the importance 

 anil value of this fact is not sufliciently and exten- 

 sively known. " 



We siiould be glad to receive a more detailed 

 account of the mode of packing and transporting 

 fine fruits in low temperature. — Ed. 



Nor;on"s Seedling Grape. — This native grape 

 has borne well, and ripened a good crop of fruit 

 with us, this season. It proves, in our estimation, 

 unworthy of cultivation as a table grape. It is 

 pulpy, and the flavor poor. As a wine grape we 

 understand it bears an excellent reputation. 



Transplanting Evergreens. — Who is not 

 pleased with the fine rich green of the pines, firs, 

 and cedars, among the ornamental trees which 

 should embellish every country resilience, — espe- 

 cially while every thing else is stripped of its 

 verdure, by the hand of winter ? But, while all 

 admire and desire evergreens, the opinion is gene- 

 ral that their removal from the forest or nursery 

 ground, is one of great difficulty and hazard. 



In such cases, that only is difficult or hazardous, 

 which is not understood. Experience shows most 

 plainly that pines and firs are not to be treated as 

 common deciduous trees, which may be torn from 

 from the ground, with denuded roots, and re-set 

 without loss or danger. But because a different 

 course is needed for evergreens, we must not 

 hence conclude, that when treated according to 

 their peculiar need, there is any uncommon diffi- 

 culty. Let the means be only adapted to the end, 

 and all gardening operations become easy. 



A leading requisite, to which the attention 

 should be directed, is that the tree, after removal. 



be similarly situated, as regards the roots and the 

 supply from them, as before. The roots of ever- 

 greens are usually more fragile than those of other 

 trees; hence, it is very hard to get them entire, if 

 separated from the soil which encircled them. 

 And hence, it becomes quite important to remove 

 the soil with them. We have set out large numbers 

 of white pines, American arbor vita*, and other 

 evergreens from the woods, from five to twenty 

 feet in height, and scarcely ever lost one of them. 

 We have on the other hand, observed hundreds of 

 much less size, set out by others, and in some in- 

 stances not one in fifty survived removal. In the 

 first instance, large, circular cakes of earth ad- 

 hered to the roots; in the other, they were taken, 

 bare, from the soil. In some of the successful ca- 

 ses alluded to, two or three hundred pounds of 

 earth remained on the roots of single trees; but 

 for trees five or six feet high, ten or fifteen pounds 

 are enough. Where they are to be carried on a 

 wagon to a distance, the earth will be found to 

 adhere better, without being jolted off, if the trees 

 are selected from mucky ]ilaces, or from the bor- 

 ders of swamps, ami these do well removed to up- 

 land. But this is not very essential, provided they 

 are carefully taken up, and the earth properly se- 

 cured by wrapping or packin;^. In no case what- 

 ever, did ice ever know an evergreen tree to be lost 

 by trans/danting, where a full sized circle of earth 

 was removed in contact with the ruots. As a gene- 

 ral guide to the size or weight of this circle, it 

 should be heavy enough to prevent the tree from 

 blowing down, after it is set out, without stak- 

 ing. 



" But,"' exclaims some one, " are we to be taxed 

 with the labor and expense of carrying this great 

 load of soil on every tree ?"' Certainly — this is 

 the price of your beautiful evergreens — who would 

 grudge it ? Besides, this is the cheapest way of 

 getting them; one fact in our knowledge as an il- 

 lusiration. Two neighbors went many miles for a 

 load each of white pines. One brought only a 

 dozen, with plenty of earth on the roots; every 

 one lived and flourished. The other, thinking to 

 do better, brought fifty, with denuded roots. Only 

 one lived. Which was the cheaper bargain ? 



In cases where the earth cannot be had upon the 

 roots, many may be saved by a strict observance 

 of the usual provisions of nature. The roots of 

 evergreens are commonly confined very nearly to 

 the surface; the flat faces of the pine stump fences 

 of some districts exhibit this habit on a large 

 scale. In setting them out therefore, it is best to 

 .retain that shallowness, — provided other requisites 

 can be secured. That is, if set shallow, a full sup- 

 ply of moisture must be maintained by a thorough 

 admixture of muck with the soil on which they 

 stand; and a covering of leaves to retain the mois- 

 ture, in imitation of the natural coating in the 

 woods, must not be omitted. Watering, if neces- 

 sary, must be freely and repeatedly given. The 

 immersion of the roots in a thick, rich, mucky 

 mud, just before sotting out, is of the highest im- 

 portance But if the requisites, just mentioned, 

 for maintaining moisture at the roots, cannot be 

 fully a'tained, it is much better to set the tree 

 deeper, -with mudded roots as already mentioned. 



