TREES 



greens, but if these cannot be had, the 

 properly prepared earth, taking care that 

 no manure comes in contact with the roots, 

 will be sufficient. 



There is a great difference of opinion as 

 to the best time for transplanting ever- 

 greens. Many persons say, that they should 

 only be set out in the Spring, while others 

 contend that the last two weeks in August 

 and the first two in September is the proper 

 time. I have set them out at all times from 

 early April until the middle of September, 

 but in taking young pines, hemlocks, and 

 cedars from the woods, have had the best 

 success by transplanting them when the first 

 new shoots appeared. In February of this 

 year, however, the men transplanted some 

 beautiful tall pointed cedars from the woods 

 into the Lily garden, the trees being moved 

 with great balls of frozen earth about the 

 roots. They were all from fifteen to 

 twenty feet in height, and of eight but one 

 died, and this occurred probably because 

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