The Canadian Horticulturist. 367 



PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS IN FALL. 



OW is a capital time to plant evergreen coniferous trees, 

 also rhododendrons, kalmias, andromedas, azaleas, tree 

 box, hardy heaths, and other plants of the kind that 

 keep good balls of earth with lots of fibres to their roots. 

 They should be well soaked before they are put into the 

 holes, and before finishing filling in the dirt about them 

 " give a reasonably good watering. Do not water on the 

 surface of the ground, as it crusts the earth and prevents a free penetration of 

 rain and air. Don't plant coniferous trees, as pines, firs, spruces, or arbor vitaes, 

 more than one or two inches deeper than they were before ; of course the size of 

 the plant has a good deal to do with this, big trees can bear a little more depth 

 than small ones. 



Don't overwater conifers. Thousands of young plants are killed every year 

 by constant watering ; it rots the roots and death ensues. Rhododendrons, aza- 

 leas, and the like can stand more water than conifers, and it is very important 

 in their case to have the ball of roots thoroughly soaked before being planted. 

 For the winter mulch about the plants with leaves or long manure ; we generally 

 use salt meadow hay ; but do not apply it till the ground is frozen about the 

 plants. The great advantage of planting now is that the hot weather is practi- 

 cally past, the nights are long and cool, there is a dew to recuperate the plants 

 from the fatigue of the day, and the ground is warm enough to induce good root 

 action. The result is that next spring the plants are apt to start off into growth 

 more as if they had been established than recently planted specimens. 



From the end of September and early in October, most fibrous rooted trees 

 and shrubs can be transplanted with excellent success. In the line of trees I 

 may mention maples in general, horse chestnut in variety, catalpas, and poplars ; 

 and in the way of shrubs, clethra, euonymus, deutzia, mock orange or syringa, 

 forsythia, hibiscus, hydrangea, hypericum, spiraea, weigelia. jBut trees and 

 shrubs that have long or naked roots or are growing late should be planted after 

 the first black frost. — Gardening. 



Mushroom Culture. — Many American florists have found that they can 

 combine raising mushrooms and flowers for cutting in the same houses, and in 

 this way make a double profit from the same amount of glass. Usually, these 

 combined houses have been roses and mushrooms, or carnations and mush- 

 rooms ; but even the vegetable growers are now finding that they can get double 

 crops in this way. In many parts of our country, it is found very profitable to 

 raise tomatoes under glass ; and it is found that tomatoes and mushrooms go 

 very well together. — Meehans' Monthly for October. 

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