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Moss, were succeeded by good specimens of the Chinaberry tree, leaf- 

 less at this season, but ladali with their showy clusters of buff colored 

 berries ; wliile beyond all, forming a background to this scene, flowed 

 the St. John's Kiver, which is here nearly two miles wide. During 

 an early walk I passed some beautiful gardens, where the rose, the 

 jasmine, and the brilliant colored poinsetta, and many other floral 

 beauties, vied with each other in brilliancy and fragrance, and made it 

 very difficult, to believe that this was really a December day. There 

 is, however, an entire absence of fine grassy lawns, which lend such a 

 charm to homes further north ; the climate is too hot in summer for 

 the fine grasses and clover to endure, hence any attempts in this 

 direction are with coarser species of native grasses, which lack the 

 softness and beauty of the finer grasses we are accustomed to see. 

 While the climate in winter is so very suitable for flower growing, the 

 soil is very poor in many places, almost pure white sand, so that it 

 becomes a matter of surprise that plants, flowers and fruit succeed at 

 all. After spending a quiet but very pleasant Sunday in Jacksonville, 

 we paid a visit by boat on Monday morning to one of the neighboring 

 orange groves on the St. John's, where we enjoyed the sight and taste 

 of this luscious fruit, and spent a very pleasant hour or two in 

 wandering among the orange, lemon and lime groves, and enjoying the 

 fragrance of beautiful roses and other flowers growing in profusion. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



BY P. E. BUCKE, OTTAWA, ONT. 



With regard to transplanting trees, there are hardly any, from the 

 currant and gooseberry to the large forest tree, that are not greatly 

 benefitted by being taken out of the ground, the roots pruned and 

 re-set one or two years before they leave the nursery. If this method 

 was more generally adopted by our nurserymen there would be fewer 

 failures when trees were permanently planted. The planter would 

 also find that the trees would not receive so great a check in its growth, 

 and would come to bearing maturity a year or two earlier. Any one 

 who understood what he was about would gladly give an advance 

 price for such trees, as the roots would be more fibrous. 



Any nurseryman who would adopt this plan with a portion of his 

 stock, and advertise the difference in the cost of trees so transplanted 



