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spring arrives, it survives but a short period. The only period, there, 

 fore, that remains for the successful removal of evergreens here, is the 

 spring. When pl/inted as early as practicable in the spring, so as to 

 have the full benefit of the abundant rains so beneficial to vegetation 

 at that season, they will almost immediately protrude new shoots, and 

 regain their former vigor. 



Evergreens are, in their roots, much more delicate and impatient of 

 dryness than deciduous trees ; and this should be borne in mind while 

 transplanting them. For this reason, experienced planters always 

 choose a wet or misty day for their removal ; and, in dry weather, we 

 would always recommend the roots to be kept watered and covered 

 from the air by mats during transportation. When proper regard is 

 paid to this point, and to judicious selection of the season, evergreens 

 will not be found more difficult of removal than other trees. 



Another mode of transplanting large evergreens, which is very suc- 

 cessfully practised among us, is that of removing them with frozen 

 balls of earth in mid-winter. When skilfully performed, it is perhaps 

 the most complete of all modes, and is so different from the common 

 method, that the objection we have just made to winter planting does 

 not apply to this case. The trees to be removed are selected, the situa- 

 tions chosen, and the holes dug, while the ground is yet open in autumn. 

 When the ground is somewhat frozen, the operator proceeds to dig a 

 trench around the tree at some distance, gradually undermining it, and 

 leaving all the principal mass of roots embodied in the ball of earth. 

 The whole ball is then left to freeze pretty thoroughly (generally till 

 snow covers the ground), when a large sled drawn by oxen is brought 

 as near as possible, the ball of earth containing the tree rolled upon it, 

 and the whole is easily transported to the hole previously prepared, 

 where it is placed in the proper position, and as soon as the weather 

 Ijecomes mild, the earth is properly filled in around the ball. A tree, 

 either evergreen or deciduous, may be transplanted in this way, so as 

 scarcely to show, at the return of growth, any ill effects from its 

 change of location. 



