No. 12. 



Transplanting Evergreens. 



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cumstances did not permit us to make a 

 longer stay. It was also with much regret 

 that we were compelled to forego the plea- 

 sure of a visit to the fine places of Mr. Ful- 

 ler, Maj. Allen, and Mr. Butler, all situated 

 in the same neighbourhood. 



From Mr. Wheeler's we passed up the 

 river bank to Ellerslie, the residence of Wil- 

 liam Kelly, Esq., near Rhinebeck. This 

 place, consisting of about 600 acres, has 

 been in Mr. K.'s possession about seven 

 years. In its original purchase and subse- 

 quent improvement, he has made large ex- 

 penditures, and whether considered in refer- 

 ence to its natural position and features, or 

 the embellishments of art, there are but few 

 places of equal beauty and interest. The 

 mansion stands on elevated ground, but is 

 flanked on the north and west by beautiful 

 VFOods, which effectually screen it from the 

 boreal blasts. The prospect to the south is 

 delightful, embracing a view of the river 

 and country on both sides, for the distance 

 of nearly twenty miles. 



The appearance of the grounds is highly 

 attractive. On one side are extensive car- 

 riage ways and walks, leading for miles 

 through groves and forests, and taking in 

 their course points from which we have the 

 finest park-like views; while on the other 

 side, lie broad green fields, whose gently-va- 

 ried surface presents to the eye a rich and 

 extensive rural landscape. 



The farm is divided into lots from fifly to 

 a hundred acres, and where a division of 

 these lots becomes necessary, movealjle iron 

 fences are used, which, as they cannot be 

 seen at a distance, preserve, unbroken, the 

 view of the grounds. The soil is mostly a 

 clay loam, more natural to the production of 

 grass than grain. Gypsum operates favour- 

 ably, and by the use of this article every 

 year or two, and occasional top-dressings, 

 with compost, a great portion of the farm is 

 kept constantly in grass. A large field was 

 shown us which had not been ploughed for 

 upwards of thirty years, and it had a stout 

 crop of excellent quality. The herbage of 

 the pastures is likewise much improved by 

 moderate dressings of plaster. Hay is the 

 principal product of the farm, of which it 

 yields from 300 to 400 tons annually, mostly 

 sent to the New York market. 



Considerable live stock is, however, kept 

 on the farm, and in this department Mr. K. 

 has spared neither pains nor expense to ob- 

 tain the best. We saw sixteen cows, full 

 blood and grade Durhams, all of which were 

 good, and several of them uncommonly fine 

 both in points and dairy qualities. Among 

 the herd was a very fine imported Ayrshire 

 cow — " Kitty." Mr. K. showed us some 



very promising young stock of various ages, 

 and several yoke of staunch working oxen. 

 A pair of nearly full blood Durhams were of 

 large size, and apparently of great strength. 



Mr. K. has a flock of about sixty South- 

 down sheep, several of which he procured 

 from the best flocks in England, at a cost, in 

 some instances, of two hundred dollars per 

 head. Many of them are of first rate quality, 

 and show that they have been bred with care 

 and judgment. 



Mr. K. has shown great liberality in the 

 distribution of such of his fine animals as he 

 could spare, among the neighbouring farm- 

 ers, at prices not higher than would have 

 been paid by the butchers. 



The old out-buildings of the farm are in 

 good order, but not in all cases of the most 

 approved style. Mr. Kelly is erecting on 

 different parts of the farm, several spacious 

 barns for storing hay; and next season he 

 designs to take down the barns where the 

 cattle are kept, and put up others of the 

 most convenient and substantial kind, in their 

 stead. — Cultivator. 



From Downing's Horticulturist. 

 Transplanting Evergreens. 



Having recently been looking over the 

 numbers of the current volume of " The 

 Horticulturist,"" I have been exceedingly 

 interested with several articles, from highly 

 respectable cultivators in different sections, 

 on "Transplanting Evergreens." It is a 

 subject which certainly ought to meet with 

 altogether more attention than it does at 

 present from every cultivator; for no rural 

 spot, whether it be the environs of home, 

 the public promenade, or the cool and re- 

 freshing park, can be perfect without them. 

 They give beauty to the scenery wherever 

 they are found. Not only by their beautiful 

 symmetry, but by the contrast they afford in 

 their rich and unfading foliage, — differing 

 so widely in form in their own family, and 

 so varied from that of deciduous trees. In 

 spring, they are lovely; in summer, beauti- 

 ful ; in autumn, when maturity spreads its 

 variegated colours over the forest and the 

 grove, to give interest to the decay of na- 

 ture, they smile at biting frosts and cheer- 

 less winds; and when winter comes, "in 

 her terrors clad," they stand unchanged, 

 amid howling blasts and pitiless storms, and 

 driving snows, like " the friend that is born 

 for adversity." Who does not admire them, 

 and who would not cultivate them? 



It is a sad fact, and one that we hope will 

 soon be exchanged for a better truth, that 

 many neglect all attempts at the cultivation 

 of evergreens, from an impression that the 



