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last were 15 feet high with heads in proportion, each re- 

 quired 10 people to move it, and all were expected to die. 

 Bnt all lived, although Mr. Labarre adds, "the foil into 

 which they were put made their loss probable enough ; for it 

 was full of stones, and consisted of white sand mixed with a 

 little vegetable mould." (Why this should be unfavorable 

 soil is not explained. Suppose it had been clay!) On the 

 7th April, 34 Norway spruces and 10 white spruces {Sapi- 

 nettes) were planted, from 6 to 10 feet high. They had 

 been raised in the nursery in gray sand, and M. Labarre was 

 astonished at the beauty of their growth in such soil (why?). 

 Only two of the Norway spruces died. In conclusion he 

 explains how he watered these trees. Each yew planted in 

 March received a potfull of water when first planted, then 

 four times as much, and this was repeated several times dur- 

 ing the first month. In the April planting, there being at 

 that time a drying wind, the holes were only three quarters 

 filled, and each tree received two potsfull of water. After- 

 wards each hole was filled in so as to remain a basin, and 

 watering was repeated during the continuance of the drought. 

 To this statement M. Carriere, whose work on Conifers 

 was noticed the other day, opposes some counter expe- 

 rience. 1. He says that he v/as obliged last year to take 

 up, in the end of August, some Chinese arbor-vitses more 

 than 15 years old, and mostly above 6 feet high; they were 

 removed carefully to a trench, the soil of which was well 

 watered before it was filled in, and they suffered so little that 

 no one could distinguish them from the others which had not 

 been removed. 2. A similar operation was performed in the 

 spring of 1854 with other Chinese arbor-vitass of about the 

 same size, and a great many died, notwithstanding all the 

 care that was taken of them. 3. Last September he potted 

 280 yews without any other care than plunging the pots 

 and covering them with leaves ; not one missed. But upon 

 performing exactly the same operation upon evergreen cy- 

 presses, loss was experienced to the extent of about one third 

 — a circumstance which M. Carriere inclines to attribute to 

 the well-known difficulty of transplanting that species when 



