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Trees are not generally taken up with the 

 same care here as there, and even if they were, 

 the roots and small fibres are still usually much 

 wounded and injured. If transplanted in Sep- 

 tember or October just previous to the frost 

 entering the ground, there is not time for these 

 injuries to heal before the action of the severe 

 frosts of our winters, which is sure to penetrate 

 to them as the earth is loosened all round by 

 transplanting; this action of the frost on the 

 lacerated roots must of course be in many 

 cases fatal. Again in March and April, par- 

 ticularly the former, the most drying winds of 

 the year prevail in England, which is unfavor- 

 able to transplantation as increasing the evapo- 

 ration. Here the earth in those months is usually 

 extremely moist from the melting of the snow, 

 &c. Hence it would appear that these months 

 are more favorable for the operation of trans- 

 plantation here than in England — and it seems 

 probable that there is less chance of failure in 

 this climate by transplanting early in the spring 

 than in the autumn; still I have now before 

 me several trees transplanted in November 

 which have stood this severe winter, and are 

 now in full leaf and beauty. Also the spon- 

 gioles of the roots of trees transplanted in 

 autumn are better settled in the earth, absorb 



