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tree deeper in the ground than it stood pre- last three or four summers, has appeared 



vious to being moved. 



The hole for receiving the tree should be 

 at least two feet larger in diameter, than the 

 frozen mass, containing it. In filling up 

 around and under the tree, it would be 

 much better to use good rich soil, instead 

 of the poorer dirt that was thrown out in 

 digging the hole. For this purpose, a 

 quantity of earth might be kept in barrels 

 in a cellar, where it would not freeze. 



A light top-dressing of soil and compost 

 manure, ought to be put around the tree 

 in the spring, after which it will require no 

 further attention. 



Trees of all kinds, removed in this way, 

 always live. The writer assisted in trans- 

 planting a hickory tree of the shell-bark va- 

 riety, in the winter of 1839, by the above 

 process. The tree in question, was about 

 thirt}'- feet high, and one foot through, at 

 the surface of the ground. It sustained 

 very little check by its removal, and, for the 



perfectly healthy and vigorous, and has 

 borne four crops of nuts. Taking into con- 

 sideration the great size of this tree, and 

 the extreme difficulty with which the hicko- 

 ry is transplanted, even when of very small 

 size, the experiment may be regarded as a 

 very convincing one. 



Since that time, the writer has assisted in 

 removing large hemlocks and other trees, 

 by this method, all of which, without a sin- 

 gle exception, have lived, and entirely out- 

 grown the slight check which their removal 

 occasioned. The whole expense of such an 

 operation, does not exceed five or ten dol- 

 lars. But the tree will at once produce an 

 effect, and will grow and wave in the breeze, 

 and birds will sing sweetly from its boughs 

 long after the hand that planted it shall 

 have relinquished the pleasure of trans- 

 planting trees. 



George Jaques. 



Worcester, Mass. Jan. 2^th, 1847, 



QUINCE STOCKS FOR PEARS. 



Bt S. G. PERKINS, Esq., BOSTON. 



There is a strong prejudice in this countr}-^ 

 against Quince seedlings as stocks on which 

 Pears should be grafted; but I think, if the 

 question is properly considered, it may be 

 removed. First, it is said that they are short- 

 lived, and that they die of diseases to which 

 the free or pear stocks are not liable. That 

 they are shorter lived than pear stocks, 

 there is no doubt ; but when we consider 

 that they are brought into bearing in a year 

 or two after they are grafted, and when 

 quite small, while the pear stocks require 

 many years to bring them to the same ad- 

 vanced and fruitful state, we think, it is un- 

 deniably a compensation. 



It is also true that a pear stock may pro- 

 duce ten times as much fruit, when full- 

 grown as a quince stock, but the advantages 

 are perhaps fully balanced in other ways, 

 as follows : Pear stocks must be planted at 

 least thirty feet apart, and even at this dis- 

 tance, when grown to any size, they will 

 shade so much of your ground, as to inter- 

 fere seriously with its cultivation ; the roots 

 also extend in proportion to the head, and 

 exhaust of course, so much soil as they cover. 

 Now quince stocks may be planted within 

 ten feet of each other, and have room enough 

 for their heads ; while their roots, being all 

 fibrous, are circumscribed in their growth, 



