24 THE TREE PROPAGATOR AND PLANTER. 



should be of the summer's growth. The soil must be 

 moderately light and very sandy for this work, and free 

 from too much water. 



The Holly should by all means be planted where it is 

 to remain for life while quite young. It is one of the 

 most stubborn and fastidious things possible to remove 

 when much advanced in growth, and seldom or never 

 does well if removed when of middle size or above that. 

 The transplanting of the Holly should be done early in 

 the autumn, or not before April ; and some additional 

 pains are necessary for success when planting good- 

 sized Hollies. Some fine sandy maiden loam should be 

 used for the roots, and well worked among them. This 

 soil is excellent for inducing a quick root. 



The Thorn. 



The uses of the White Thorn are well known, and 

 the beauty of some of its varieties is equally deserving 

 of notice as being very ornamental for park and lawn 

 trees. There are numerous species and varieties of this 

 interesting tribe, some having flowers as beautiful and 

 as double as a rose. Nothing can surpass, if compar- 

 able to, Cratcegu8 } Oxyaeantha multiplex, with its beautiful 

 double white flowers, and C. punicea, with its handsome 

 scarlet flowers, and C. rosea flore-pleno, a splendid 

 double pink-flowered variety. All the double varieties 

 must be grafted on the common Thorn, which is raised 

 from seed. The haws must be gathered as soon as ripe, 

 and the pulp rotted off by laying them in a heap, or by 

 burying them in a hole dug out in a dry spot out of 

 doors, and then covering them up till the spring (about 

 March). Then clean them, and sow the seed in deep 

 drills drawn with a hoe, sowing it thick as for small 

 early white peas, and covering it up with fine light 

 sandy soil. These seedling quicks are used for making 

 hedgerows, and may be planted at one, two, or more 

 years old. 



When they are wanted for stocks to graft on, they 

 should be planted out young in good strong ground, 



