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in the nursery. The misfortune is that in this country such trees will 

 not sell. It makes them less thrifty in appearance than those that 

 have not been moved, and buyers infer that they are not healthy, and 

 purchase in preference those that in consequence of not having been 

 moved have grown more rapidly and look more thrifty. In England 

 trees rise in price in proportion to the number of times they have been 

 transplanted in the nursery. Spring is the preferable time, and in 

 light porous soils the earth should be tramped firmly about the roots. 



W. Eoy, Owen Sound, finds that Hemlocks need frequent trans- 

 plantings when 3mall. In heavy soil he would not tramp the earth 

 about the roots. Plants apple trees thirty feet apart each way. 



W. Saunders, London, said that some recommended planting straw- 

 berry plants in the fall, but he had found that to be successful it must 

 be done quite early, so that they will become well established before 

 severe weather, else they are very liable to be winter-killed. 



A. M. Smith, Drummondville, had been very successful in trans- 

 planting canes of the red raspberries in the fall, but could not advise 

 planting strawberries then. 



A. E. Hayter, Millbrook, prefers spring planting for most things, 

 though raspberry and gooseberry plants start so early in the spring 

 that he prefers to plant them in the fall. 



Dumble, Peterborough : In hard cold soils would plant the trees 

 on the surface, without digging any hole, and cover the roots sufficiently 

 with good mellow earth. There is a difficulty in obtaining trees hardy 

 enough to endure our climate. 



Thos. Beall, Lindsay : Don't dig a hole at all in planting trees, 

 but prepare the ground the year before by deep subsoiling and frequent 

 ploughing ; leave a furrow where you intend to have the row of trees, 

 then set the trees in the furrow, cover the roots with earth, and then 

 throw the soil back to the trees with the plow. Spring is the more 

 favorable time for transplanting in this climate. Strawberries can be 

 successfully transplanted in the latter part of August if the weather 

 be rainy. ^ 



J. McD. Allan, Goderich, prefers fall planting ; has planted four 

 hundred trees in the fall and did not lose a tree, and wdiat was more, 

 by being in the grovmd ready to grov/ on the first appearance of spring, 

 they have gained almost a year in growth. 



To be Continued. 



