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die. But we are quite willing to acknowledge that many 

 hundreds of these trees are annually removed during this 

 season, with entire success, and notwithstanding this, we 

 repeat, local conditions are needed to insure success. 



While a ti'ee belonging to another order is removed 

 early in the spring successfully, the structure of the 

 Coniferae family is such, that an evergreen, transplanted 

 at the same time, would doubtless fail. When the case 

 is reversed and each is planted after the soil has become 

 warmed by the sun's rays late in the season, and the trees 

 show indications of growing, the latter will prove most 

 decidedly more certain. This is a practical view of the 

 case, and may be relied on. In a comparison of spring 

 and autumn planting, the former season has long since 

 been decided to be the most certain for removing ever- 



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greens in this climate. 



The following extract from Lindley's Theory of Horti- 

 culture gives an English author's views, although we 

 differ from him in the above mentioned particular. " As 

 evergreens are never deprived of their leaves, so they are 

 never incapable of forming roots; on the contrary, they 

 produce them all winter long, and rapidly at any other pe- 

 riod of the year which is favorable to their growth ; so 

 that they are capable of making good an injury to their 

 roots much more speedily than deciduous plants, especially 

 as, in the majority of cases, the roots are numerous and 

 fibrous, and not so liable to extensive mutilation when 

 transplanted. Now, if an evergreen is planted in the 

 month of May, and the weather happens to be cloudy, 

 mild, and damp, as the plant is just then commencing the 

 renewal of its growth, and is forming fresh roots abund- 

 antly, if such a state of weather lasts for a week or two, 

 there is no doubt the plant will succeed very well, and so 

 it will if removed at midsummer." Again, the same 



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author, remarks : "In short, I am certain that, if expe- 

 rience only is looked to, it will give the same answer as 



