103 TRAA'SPLANTING TREES IN WINTER. 



round ; but we imagine tbe most profitable, as well as least troublesome mode, to the 

 majority of gentlemen proprietors, would be to buy the suitable stock in the spring, 

 put it in good condition, and sell it again in the autimm. The sheep would also re- 

 quire to be folded at night to prevent the flocks from being ravaged by dogs. 



With this kind of arrangement and management of a country place, the owner 

 would be in a position to reap the greatest enjoyment Avith the least possible care. To 

 country gentlemen ignorant of farming, such an extent of park, with its drives and 

 walks, along with its simplicity of management, would be a relief from a multitude of 

 embarrassing details ; while to those who have tried, to their cost, the expenses of 

 keeping a large place in high order, it would be an equal relief to the debtor side of 

 the cash account. 



TKANSPLANTING TREES IN WINTER. 



BY HENRY F. FRENCH, EXETER, N. H. 



Dear Sir — Several subjects touched upon in your January number, seem to deserve 

 further agitation, before they arc allowed to go off the list as settled; and as the old Gran- 

 ite State is snugly ensconced under a covering of nearly three feet of snow, so that the 

 plow and the spade cannot be about their appropriate work, I hold it the duty of some- 

 body who lives iu it, to make it manifest by the pen, that our people though nearly buri- 

 ed, are not dead. 



Believing that the only way in which progress can be made in " Kural Art and Kural 

 Taste," is by a free interchange of ideas among those variously situated, as to soil and 

 climate, who are interested in such pursuits, I avail myself of your kind invitation, again 

 to offer you some suggestions, not in tlie way of a regular essay or scientific treatise, but 

 for the purpose of aiding to keep up among your readers, a familiar conversation through- 

 out the C^/iio?i, on subjects of mutual interest; and first, let me add to your collection, 

 my own experience on the suhject of 



Transplanting Trees in Winter. — Right opposite the window by which I am Avriting, 

 are four trees, two of the elm, and two of the red oak, averaging twenty-five inches in 

 circumference, and thirty feet in height, which have taken their present position within 

 the last fortnight. They really, even in winter, relieve the rawness oi a. new jilace so 

 much as to surprise the initiated. 



Your advice to your New-IIaven correspondent, to expend his first labor in moving a 

 few large trees, rather than in shrubbery and walks, would bo followed by any man who 

 has once seen the experiment tried. Moving large trees is like buying stocks with the di- 

 vidends on; you get your return forthwith. 



You and your Philadelphia correspondent estimate the expense of transplanting a tree 

 of much larger size than mine, at five dollars. ]\Iy trees were moved an average distance 

 of about half a miie, and reckoning the labor of a man at one dollar per day, and that of 

 a yoke of oxen the same, they were dug up, moved, and completely planted, for three dol- 

 lars each. As my method of moving them seems comparatively cheap, I will give it to 

 you in a few words. 



Selecting a tree near the highway, we removed the snow and found the ground vei 

 tie frozen. We then dug a trench entirely round the tree, two feet deep, and un 



