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or can be found in pastures of a size ordinarily considered too large 

 to be transplanted, but with sufHcient care they might be safely 

 removed, and would produce an immediate effect. The speaker 

 had often transplanted large trees with success. It is a beautiful 

 thing to take a tree six, eight, or ten inches in diameter, which 

 would perhaps otherwise be destroyed, and put it where it is 

 wauted, and do the work in such a manner that in a year it would 

 not be known that it had been transplanted. The late lion. Josiah 

 Quincy planted an orchard in his old age, and lived to eat of the 

 fruit for twenty-five years. It is important in planting trees to 

 attend to the location and condition of the soil ; they love moisture, 

 and evergreens are often supposed to have been winter-killed when 

 in reality they have died of drought. But they must have drain- 

 age, for a superfluity of moisture is equally deleterious. If, after 

 the holes are dug, they are found full of water, another location 

 should be selected, for no tree will grow in stagnant water. One 

 must either be familiar with these points or procure the services 

 of a competent person. 



Col. Wilson advised the planting of trees that will bear nuts ; 

 he loves to go nutting still. He would plant grafted trees of some 

 line variety of chestnut or other nuts, rather than to raise them 

 from seed, and then he would be sure of getting fine nuts. There 

 are many places in New England where the black walnut will 

 flourish. 



There are many estates that require wind-breaks. People plant 

 grape vines in exposed places and the leaves are broken by winds, 

 and also evaporate more water than they would in a sheltered place, 

 and are attacked by mildew. Grapes cannot be brought to the 

 highest perfection except in still air. In encouraging the planting 

 and growth of trees will be found the hope of establishing homes. 



Our cities ought to own the lands upon which rainfall is gathered 

 for their water suj^pl}', and keep them covered with forest trees, 

 thus preventing pollution at the source. The money that has been 

 spent by the city of Boston in other directions to secure the 

 purit}' of the water supply, would have bought a hundred thou- 

 sand acres of land. 



Notice was given that on the next Saturday John G. Barker 

 would read a i)aper on " The Care and Embellishment of Ceme- 

 teries." 



