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either by placing large stones about the roots, or by using ropes or wires 

 to serve as " guys," running from part way up the tree down to stakes 

 driven into the ground, that they may not be swayed by the wind. The 

 transplanting of such large trees is quite expensive, and it is not advisable 

 to resort to it generally. 



It may be well to consider also the time of planting the various trees. 

 Many contend that autumn is the better time to attend to this work ; while 

 others are equally sanguine that spring is the only time when this work 

 can be successfully performed, when all the genial influences of the season 

 combine to bring forward the buds, leaves, and blossoms. Now, we think 

 it may safely be said, that, wherever the winters are severe, the fall- 

 planting of stone-ixvixX. and evergreen-trees is not safe, unless, perhaps, the 

 latter are set quite early, say in August or the first of September. Neither 

 has it been found quite so profitable to plant grape-vines at this season of 

 the year as in spring. Our experience does not lead us to favor planting 

 small fruit-trees, bushes, grape-vines, or small ornamental trees and shrubs, 

 with some exceptions, in the fall of the year. 



But we have planted large pear, apple, and other deciduous trees, to great 

 advantage. Trees, whether planted in fall or spring, will be greatly bene- 

 fited the following summer, especially if it should prove a dry season, by 

 a liberal mulching of hay, straw, leaves, or any thing of that kind that will 

 retain the moisture. This should be raked away in the following autumn, 

 for fear of damage to the trees from mice that may harbor in this loose 

 material. The merest tyro for whom this article has been written, if he 

 will follow the directions given, may plant his trees so as to insure fair suc- 

 cess. The old experienced tree-planter may possibly have a better way 

 of his own. 



Propagating Daphne cneorum. — This plant is best propagated by 

 layering into small pots placed in the ground around the plants. Any dis- 

 posable bushy shoots put in the soil up to the leaves, and pegged securely 

 about an inch below the surface, will succeed. It is not necessary to make 

 a slit or cut ; but that facilitates the rotting. Shoots layered in June will 

 be well rooted by the autumn. 



