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GARDENING. 



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PART OP THE PHILADELPHIA CHRYSANTHEMUM EXHIBITION. 



aUo at the root of the tree itself. This 

 prevents a too solid freezing of the soil 

 and renders planting practicable. 



What a mine of pleasure is open to that 

 child who can in years after point out to 

 his or her children a matured specimen of 

 a Colorado blue spruce or a handsome 

 tulip tree, and say this was my birthday 

 gift when I was three years old. 



Egandale. W. C. Egan. 



PREPARING LARGE TREES FOR REMOVAL. 



It very often happensthatit is desirable 

 to transplant large trees which ordinarily 

 it would be out of the question to move 

 successfully because of their size There 

 is a way to prepare such trees that their 

 removal with safety may be attempted 

 with an almost certainty of success. 



In the spring, before the buds burst, or 

 in the fall after growth for the season is 

 over, they must be root pruned. Sup- 

 pose a fruit or shade tree with a trunk 

 six inches in diameter, is to be removed. 

 Dig a trench in a circle around it at a dis- 

 tance of about six feet from the stem. Dig 

 it to a depth of about three feet or more, 

 cutting off clean, with an axe or hatchet, 

 all or nearly all of the large roots met 

 with. Then fill in the soil.orif it bepoor, 

 get richer soil for the purpose and fill in 

 with it. For every root cut off in this 

 way dozens ol smaller ones will take their 

 place. If done in spring the tree can be 

 removed the ensuing autumn, as there 

 will be an abundance of small roots, which 

 will ensure its life, as it is these smaller 

 ones which feed the tree. 



In digging about wildlings in the woods, 

 having never been removed, but very few 

 roots of anv kind would be met with, and 



the same is true of hickories and walnuts 

 that have been transplanted. It is wise 

 in the case of these trees to prune thetops 

 in closely at the time of the pruning, or 

 when transplanted, to make a success of 

 the work. With the average lawn tree 

 but little pruning of the top is required 

 when root pruning a season in advance 

 has been performed. Joseph Meehan. 



Roses. 



NOTES ABOUT TREES- 

 If you have a prized evergreen recently 

 planted in an exposed situation put a 

 wind break of some kind at the side ex- 

 posed. 



When planting trees next spring note 

 the direction of the prevailing winds in 

 your section, and bear in mind the fact 

 that in time exposed trees are more heav- 

 ily branched at the side opposite from 

 which the wind comes. In planting place 

 what you might term the best side tow- 

 ards the point of compass from which the 

 wind prevails, as in time the opposite side 

 will fill in. 



Young trees whose heads are not in 

 good form by reason of the leader being 

 out of line, or the branches too crowded 

 at one side and too open at the other, 

 presenting a case where judicious pruning 

 will not remedy it, can be tied in shape 

 now or early next spring. Use a soft 

 strong string or marlin run through a 

 piece of rubber hose, and if necessary use 

 cane stakes with small holes bored 

 through the ends and tied to the branches 

 to spread them apart, or spliced to the 

 leader to straighten it. Left tied one 

 growing season the wood remains in 

 place and if well done, your object is as- 

 su red . X . 



PREPARING BEDS FOR ROSES. 



When we can do so, we take out all the 

 natural soil from the bed to a depth of 

 two feet and replace it with top soil from 

 some pasture or other sod land taking 

 the sod to a depth of from four to six 

 inches and adding about one-third rotted 

 cow manure to two-thirds ef this soil. 

 This we turn over two or three times and 

 then put it into the beds, tramping it down 

 lightly as the beds are filled. 



PLANTING. 



Hybrid Perpetuals we prefer to plant in 

 the fall if the ground can be got ready in 

 time, but if that is not possible they must 

 be planted as soon as the ground can be 

 worked in the spring. Persons intending 

 planting should order their roses at once, 

 for if delayed until spring the plants are 

 almost sure to arrive too late for our 

 short planting time at that season, and a 

 good number of deaths will be the result 

 next summer. If the plants are received 

 in the fall they can be placed in temporary 

 quarters and you can have them on hand 

 when you are ready to plant out early in 

 the spring. 



The teas and hybrid teas we prefer to 

 plant in spring as the}' all are more or less 

 injured during the winter. But the hy- 

 brid teas will stand the next winter with 

 an ordinary protection of strawy manure. 

 We protect all of our roses in this way 

 using two or three forksful of strawy ma- 

 nure to each rose bush placing the straw 

 well up the stems. In some winters, the 

 tea roses will be killed to the ground, but 



