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cussion upon transplanting evergreens, which has recently 

 occupied the columns of that excellent Journal. We quote 

 from a translation in the Gardeners^ Chronicle : — 



The best season for transplanting evergreens, although 

 beginning to be more generally agreed upon than formerly, 

 still remains a question on which opinions differ. Of late 

 years the practice advocated by Mr. Glendinning, of select- 

 ing for this purpose the month of September, has been 

 adopted in England with marked success. We need not 

 here go into the reasons why this month should be selected ; 

 they are fully given in the " Theory and Practice of Horti- 

 culture," to which the reader, desirous of understanding all 

 the bearings of the question, is referred. It is enough to say 

 that the great fitness of the latter part of September, long 

 since pointed out by Horace Walpole, himself a planter of no 

 small experience, is shown by repeated experiments by Har- 

 rier de Bois-d'hiver, at Fontainebleau, and otiiers, instituted 

 for the express purpose of settling a matter so long in dispute, 

 to be on the whole the best. 



Our present object is to show the opinion of French gar- 

 deners upon this subject ; an opportunity for doing which is 

 afforded by a little discussion that has taken place in the 

 " Revue Horticole." 



Last May, M. Labarre, gardener to the Baron de Poilly, at 

 Folembray, a place, we believe, not far from the Belgian 

 frontier, gave an account of the result of his practice in re- 

 moving evergreens of considerable size. The substance of 

 his report was as follows : — 1. In the spring he removed a 

 yew 13 feet high, with a head in proportion. It took so 

 well that even an experienced gardener could not have 

 known, in the course of the same year, that it had been 

 transplanted. 2. In the following autumn he had to move 

 eight spruces and two Scotch firs ; all failed. 3. The next 

 year, again in the spring, another yew was transplanted, as 

 large as the first, and with the same success. At the same 

 time he .planted 170 other evergreens, of v^arious kinds. On 

 the loth March he planted 20 spruces and six yews ; the 



