THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



DECEMBER 1st, 1837. 



PARI 1 1. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 

 ON THE BEST SEASON FOR PLANTING EVERGREEN SHRUBS, &c. 



BY A CONSTANT READER. 



There is an article in the last Number of the Cabinet, by a 

 London Nurseryman upon planting Evergreens, which, after 

 having read attentively, I am inclined to believe may be the 

 cause of misleading some of your readers. 



I am neither a nurseryman or gardener, but having, during my 

 leisure hours, had some experience in horticulture, it may not 

 be presumption in me, to give my reasons for dissenting from 

 the observations contained in your Correspondent's communica- 

 tion. He recommends removing Evergreens in April or May, 

 giving as a reason that the young wood cannot be ripened suffi- 

 ciently in autumn without suffering (I suppose from frost) Now 

 here we are at issue, I admit that a few of the extremities of our 

 shrubs, many perish, but that evil I have always prevented by 

 heading down, say from twelve to eighteen inches, according to 

 the size of the shrub. Nothing would induce me to plant in May 

 unless my ground was of a wet clayey consistence, if so, no mat- 

 ter when. Evergreens grow nearly all the year ; plant them 

 in September or October, take one up at Christmas, and you will 

 find an immense number of new fibres pushed from the old roots; 



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