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of the year, or with balls of earth attached, and a few planters 

 yet hold to these early views; but those of more practice find 

 that it is no more difficult to transplant an evergreen when taken 

 from the nursery than to perform the same operation with any 

 deciduous tree. It is true there are exceptions among evergreens, 

 some proving more difficult than others, but the instances or 

 kinds are not more numerous than with deciduous trees. 



In transplanting, it is only requisite to remember that the tree 

 has its leaves on, and that there is consequently a constant de- 

 mand upon the roots for evaporation, and therefore it will not 

 do to permit them to get dry. With small-sized trees, a root 

 nearly corresponding with the top is generally procured when 

 the trees have been rightly grown in the nursery, and cutting 

 in the top is unnecessary ; but in the case of removal of trees 

 six feet or more in height, unless extraordinary care is taken, a 

 great reduction of root is the result, and then it is advisable 

 always to shorten in the length of the branches corresponding 

 with the apparent loss of roots the tree has sustained. 



A very great variety of evergreens have been introduced dur- 

 ing the past fifteen or twenty years, but of them few have proved 

 of a hardihood or beauty to command notice as trees for popu- 

 lar use ; and as in these pages w r e write for the general public 

 rather than for a few amateurs, we shall only describe such as 

 may be safely depended upon in all locations. 



THE WHITE PINE. Pinus strobus. The White or Weymouth 

 Pine is common in various parts of the Union, and deserving 

 of a first place in every collection. It is of rapid growth, beau- 

 tiful in every stage, from a small plant of one foot high to tl-.it 

 of a stately tree tow r ering one hundred or more feet in the ai ~, 

 and swaying its horizontal tiers of branches and tufts of airy 

 light-green foliage to the breeze. When grown in strong soil 

 it acquires a thick, compact form; but in soils of a gravelly 

 or sandy nature, somewhat dry and poor, its shoots and trunk- 



