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landscape, would, in process of time, in many places, turn the bleakest spots to gardens 

 of Paradise. 



To resume my topic, I took those trees from a sheltered situation, and placed them in a 

 position where the bleak north-westerly winds had a fair sweep at them, and old Boreas 

 has not neglected to open his battery of hail, frost, and snow, upon these juvenile sons of 

 the forest, but they are unscathed, and spring annually decks them in a drapery of the 

 Unest foliage. 



Some years ago, I resolved to set a row of trees near the village, on the edge of a mea- 

 dow. I chose the sugur maple, and planted a fine line of trees, which flourished for a sea- 

 son and then died. I reset the row for several years, but without success. I then carted 

 two or three loads of good soil to each hole, and then set them on the mounds thus raised. 

 They now thrive well; but when their roots extend beyond the mounds, will they con- 

 tinue to flourish, or will they grow mossy and die.'' 



In conclusion, I will venture to predict that whoever plants rock maples in clear meadow 

 land, with an expectation of seeing them flourish, will be sadly disappointed. This is be- 

 cause they flourish in low, wet land, where the land is hard, and even do well in running 

 water and ditch banks; and they Avill flourish in moist land, (like willows planted Vjy the 

 water course,) where the soil is not meadow mud. Yours trulj', A. Collier. 



South GrotOH, 3Iass., Dec. 28, 1850 



Remarks. — Our correspondent has, we think, failed in planting Chestnuts, because he 

 has neglected to observe that they have strong tap roots — running directly downwards, 

 and which he probably cut off without mercy in removing them. This tap root is always 

 found in chestnuts, oaks, and tulip trees, &c., but not in elms, maples, and ashes, which 

 accounts for the comparative facility of removing the latter. If he would take pains to ball 

 a chestnut, and include the tap root in the ball — at the same time reducing the top by 

 shortening-back ever}'^^ limb about one-fourth, at the time of transplanting, (for a chestnut 

 should rarely be touched with a knife at any other time,) we think he would have no 

 cause to complain of want of success. Ed. 



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BY M., ONEIDA COUNTY, N. Y. 



Dear Sir — This last spring I had occasion to remove from one part of my garden to 

 another, 36 fruit trees, the greater part plums. As soon as the ground would admit, it 

 was done, and so successfullj'-, that I am induced to give your readers a description of the 

 way it was managed. The plum trees blossomed and bore fruit equally as perfect as oth- 

 ers in my garden, which had been undisturbed. 



]My gardener who transplanted the trees, first pared ofl" carefully the top soil, until he 

 came to the upper tier of roots; then dug a trench, about eighteen inches from the body 

 of the tree, so deep that he could cut off the tap or any other roots too low to be easily 

 saved. When the tree was cut loose from its position, a strong shovel was put under, two 

 men took hold of the body, raised it up, and carried it to another place, where a hole had 

 been previously dug, (after cutting off all bruised roots,) and immediately planted. 



I presume it is precisely on the same principle as that described by Mr. PERKi>fS in a 

 former vol.* — the earth adhered firmly, but as we could not remove them all in one 



* In Mr. Perkins' the ball was soaked with water, and allowed to get firm before removal. 



