200 FLOWER GARDEN EVERGREEN SHRUBS. [APRIL. 



of the month. When planted earlier, they will remain 

 dormant until this time, and their tender fibrous roots 

 in that case frequently perish from their liability to 

 injury from frost or frosty winds, being more susceptible 

 of such injury than fibres of deciduous plants. They 

 now begin to vegetate, which is the grand criterion for 

 transplanting any plant. The buds begin to swell, the 

 roots to push, and if they can be quickly lifted and re- 

 planted, they will hardly receive a check. At all events 

 care must be taken that they are not long out of the 

 ground and exposed to the air, which greatly assists 

 the success in planting. It may be observed that ever- 

 greens in general succeed the better the smaller they 

 are, although we have seen plants, trees, and evergreens, 

 successfully lifted upwards of thirteen feet high and 

 fifteen in diameter, and carried several miles. By the 

 second year there was no appearance that such opera- 

 tion had taken place. In preparing a hole for the re- 

 ception of these plants, make it larger than the roots, 

 breaking the bottom thereof fine, and putting in some 

 fresh soil. Place the plant upright in the centre, put- 

 ting in the earth and breaking it fine, and give the plant 

 a few gentle shakes. When the roots are more than 

 half covered, put in a pot or pail full of water, allowing it 

 to subside, then cover all the roots, give a second or 

 third pail full, arid when subsided the earth will be close 

 to all the roots. Cover with more earth, pressing all 

 firm with the foot. Put more soil loosely on, which 

 will give it a finished appearance, and prevent it from 

 becoming dry, and not requiring mulching, which has 

 an unsightly appearance. All that the wind will have 



