66 Garden Topics. 



for a temporary day or week ; keep their roots away from the air, the sunshine, the 

 dry cold winds. Nothing injures them so quick and so severely like exposure; and 

 if the planting season is a dry one, watering should not be withheld. Sagacious nur- 

 serymen who succeed best in transplanting, puddle the roots, rather than water in 

 the open field. Soon after the shrubs are received, a large hole, say six feet in diam- 

 eter and two feet deep, is made, filled with water, and a rich mud of thick cream con- 

 sistence is formed ; into this are plunged the roots of the shrubs until they are coated 

 over with the muddy slime, so tenacious as to stick closely to all parts. They are 

 then transplanted directly to their growing place, and experience seems to demon- 

 strate it is the only successful way of enabling them to withstand a dry season. While 

 planting, fill in about the roots an abundance of fine rich earth, pack it close and 

 firm, and tread the surface with the foot. A slight mulching is often advisable, with 

 such material as straw or grass, and we have found this particularly necessary with 

 the hemlock spruce. In transplanting a lot just before winter, part were mulched, 

 part not. The former lived soundly through a severe winter, the latter perished. 

 A good snowbank around an evergreen is the very best protection it can have. 



A. tine Jiose Hedge. 



It is tantalizing for us here in America, who have not yet learned how to make 

 successful rose hedges, to read of one in the garden of Right Honorable Lord Mid- 

 dleton, of Appleeross, England, which, during the past growing season, was five feet 

 in height and over two hundred feet long, in the finest possible health, and one sheet 

 of flmcers — such flowers I The variety was Gloire de Dijon, and the hedge was used 

 as a screen to the kitchen garden, and there was no end to the cutting of the roses. 

 These hedges were made by simply constructing a neat wire fence, with five strands; 

 and as the plants grew, they were fastened to the wires. The shoots intertwined in 

 and out, and among each other, filling the hedge quite compactly, and reaching to 

 the top. 



A Jieontiftil Jiotie. 



In the grounds of one of our New York suburban rural Editors, there bloomed last 

 3^ear a beautiful rose, which seems to have given him an unbounded degree of delight, 

 and to have been the admiration of visitors. His story is told by himself, as fol- 

 lows, in his diary of " Daily Rural Life :" 



" My gardener purchased from one of our large florists a dozen plants of a Coun- 

 tesse de Bertha rose, which has proved to be one of the best perpetual blooming sorts 

 that I have seen. The flowers are of a deep pink color, quite large, double and ele- 

 gant in form, and the fragrance is most exquisite, being entirely undescribable, but 

 may be called a spiced-sweetoned Tea. A bud cut oif when it begins to open, and 

 placed in a room, will perfume the entire atmosphere within, for one or two days. 

 The plants are very vigorous, not being subject to mildew in the house, and they 

 bloom almost continually ; even small plants struck out from cuttings, bloom when 

 only a few months old. We may have more showy varieties, but there are few that 

 will please better than the Countesse de Bertha." 



Grtipes Jor the. Yn/niily Garden, 



It is a question whether the large grower for profit enjoys his horticultural work 

 as much as that amateur who takes care of his dozen vines or so, in his garden 



