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This class is highly valued for wind breaks and screens, as well as 
menting our yards and lawns. When judiciously used, they form a ple 
contrast, to deciduous trees, in winter, their foliage bedecked with hoar frost 
sparkling in the dazzling sunlight. The objection of some, the many age oe 
attend their transplanting, is almost entirely due to manner of handling. r 
roots are very sensitive, and cloudy, moist weather should be selected for trans- 
planting. With digging and planting well done, the after care is but little. 
Mulch well with coarse litter, straw, chip dirt, sawdust, or whatever will raat 
the roots from the scorching rays of the sun. 
[Nore—Never use manure around the roots in planting.] 
F. R. Elliot, in his work on landscape gardening, states, first that in removing 
and transplanting evergreens they should have bolls of earth attached; and 
second, they should only be moved at certain seasons of the year. But those 
who practically and theoretically understand the evergreen tree or plant, can 
move them at any time when the ground can be worked freely, except the 
months of July and August, in all our latitudes from above 43° to 40°; 
below that, June and September must be included with July and August. 
In transplanting, it is only requisite to remember that the tree has its leaves 
on, and that there is, consequently, a constant demand upon the roots for 
evaporation by the leaves, and therefore it will not do to permit them to get 
dry. With small sized trees, a root nearly corresponding with the top, is 
generally procured, and when the trees have been rightly grown in the nur- 
gery, cutting in of the top is unnecessary. But in case of the removal of 
trees six feet or more in height, unless extraordinary care is taken, a great reduc- 
tion of the root is the result, and then it is always advisable to shorten in the 
length of the branches corresponding with apparent loss of roots the tree has 
sustained. 
We would recommend for general planting the following varieties: 
White Pine (Pinus strobus.) 
White Spruce (Abies alba.) 
Balsam Fir (Abies Balsamea.) 
Scotch Pine (Pinus Sylvestris.) 
Austrian Pine (Pinus Austriaca. ) 
Rest or Norway Pine (Pinus resinosa. ) 
Arbor Vite (Thuja occidentalis.) 
Norway Spruce (Abies excelsa.) 
Siberian Arbor Vite (Biota Wareana.) 
10. Red Cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.) 
11. Black Spruce (Abies Nigra.) 
12. Mountain Pine (Pinus pungens.) 
13. Common Juniper (Juniperus communis.) 
14. Savin Juniper (Juniperus Sabina, ) 
15. Tom Thumb Arbor Vite (for trial.) bs 
16. Ground Hemlock (Taxus Canadensis.) 
17. Hemlock Spruce (Abies Canadensis.) 
18. Yew (Americana Canadensis.) 
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Deciduous Conifers. 
American Larch or Tamarack. (Larix Americana.) 
European Larch. (Larix Europea.) 
