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rather extensively and successfully by adopting the 

 following method : Where the plants were found to 

 have earth -balls adhering to them, they were simply 

 transplanted without other auxiliary ; but in all cases 

 where the earth fell off the roots in performing the 

 work, he planted them in leaves, at same time water- 

 ing occasionally, say once a-week. 



In 1856 it became necessary, in the month of June, 

 at Pippinford Park, Sussex, to remove several pines 

 and large shrubs. In performing the work, the earth 

 was entirely disengaged from their roots. They were, 

 however, all planted in leaves, and grew well. 



During the summer of 1868 we had occasion, in 

 the month of July, to lift sixty silver firs from 10 to 

 15 feet high. These we planted in a heap of leaves, 

 and without any other attention they all, with two 

 exceptions, struck root and grew well. The success 

 that attended the preservation of these trees was all 

 the more wonderful, considering that they were re- 

 moved without almost any earth adhering to them, 

 and at a time and season so remarkable for its exces- 

 sive heat and drought, that thousands of plants long 

 established in the ground withered and died. Even 

 some of the silver firs referred to were at the time of 

 removal suffering considerably from the effects of the 

 drought, but on removal recovered, and are at present, 

 in another situation, growing and quite healthy. 



Another circumstance connected with planting in 

 leaves is worthy of notice. In a reserve nursery, a 

 number of trees, from 6 to 8 feet high, were lifted for 

 the purpose of transplanting, but being considerably 

 overgrown, the best only were selected and the others 

 cast away, being carelessly thrown over the fences as 

 useless. A quantity of leaves accumulated about the 



