ON PLANTING EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 23J 



moving the plants, and having fixed on the various situations 

 where they are to be placed, cause the pits to be made before the 

 plants are lifted, then take them up with good roots and balls as 

 entire as possible ; the plant, if large, should be put into a hand- 

 barrow, made for the purpose, and carried to its destination 

 by two or four men, according to its size or weight; let it care- 

 fully down into the pit, then adjust the roots and cover them with 

 fine mould, then gently press the mould down with the foot, and 

 give a slight watering through the rose of a watering pot, after- 

 wards fill up the pit and level off; gentle waterings should 

 occasionally be given in the course of the season, in ordinary 

 seasons two or three waterings will be sufficient. On stiff soils, 

 or under large trees, the plants are much benefitted by trench- 

 ing and loosening the earth a few feet all around them the follow- 

 ing winter or spring, after being transplanted. On dry soils and 

 sheltered situations, evergreens may be transplanted during the 

 winter months with success ; but on low lying retentive soils, it 

 is advisable to defer the transplanting of large evergreens till at 

 least the beginning or middle of April. 



AKTICLE VIII. 

 ON PRUNING TIMBER TREES, &c. 



AN EXTRACT FROM LOWE'S ELEMENTS, &C. BY CLERICUS. 



I am aware that the subject of pruning a timber tree is not 

 strictly Floricultural, yet their being usually found in the plea- 

 sure ground as matters of ornament, shelter, &c. will justify the 

 insertion of some remarks on pruning them. The pruning away 

 branches to make room from the sucessful growth of shrubs, is 

 often required in the belts which form the exterior parts of the 

 ground, as well as to give trees a proper form to make the best 

 timber. A great deal of mismangement often occurs by per- 

 sons performing it in a most injudicious manner, and in or- 

 der to afford the readers of the Cabinet an opportunity of know- 

 ing how to perform the required particulars, I have extracted the 

 following excellent observations from Professor Low's Elements, 

 &c. for insertion therein. 



The natural tendency of many trees is to rise with a conical 

 stem shooting forth lateral branches from the base upwards. 

 Some species of trees, as most of the resinous and some of the 

 willow and poplar kind do not tend to deviate from this form, the 



