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loads of evergreens, and plant them in fair-grounds forty to fifty 

 miles away. A car-load was dug up, packed, transported to the 

 fair-grounds, and replanted. By such instalments the order was 

 filled in May. Before the end of June all these trees had to be 

 cleared from the fair-grounds ; therefore the same process was 

 repeated and the trees were replaced in Mr. Paul's nursery grounds, 

 without the loss of a single one ; indeed they made a fair growth 

 that season. Mr. Dawson thought well of home-planting of ever- 

 greens in August, but he did not think it proV»al)le that a case of 

 evergreens could he transported fifty to one hundred miles at that 

 season and come out well. If they did not suffer from dr^'ing of 

 the roots while out of the ground, a fungus would probably Ije 

 developed Avhich would destroy tliem. He believed the best time 

 to plant them was when the l)uds are swelling, or after they have 

 completed their term of growth. There are two sets of roots 

 formed in each year ; the first just after starting to grow in the 

 spring ; the other in the summer, after the short season of rest. If 

 a seedling or small plant is potted in July it will throw out new 

 roots in two weeks, which illustrates this law of the whole family. 

 Mr. Dawson's first work, after his return from the war in 1864, 

 was the removal of one thousand Arbor Vit« ti'ees, from six to 

 twelve feet high, which had to be done between the second of Juue 

 and the second or third of July. They are all healthy plants today. 

 In 1885, three hundred and fift}' white .pine trees were procured in 

 November in order to have them ready for use iu the following 

 spring. They were heeled iu and covered with leaves, which kept 

 them moist, and prevented heaving by frost. They were all 

 planted out in the spring Avithout loss. Not only conifers Init all 

 other evergreens are realh^ easier to transplant because the roots 

 are always in action, and loss from transplanting arises chiefly 

 from the careless, hap-hazard manner in which the work is generally 

 performed. Phius ponderosa is a good tree iu parts of the west, but 

 it does not appear to succeed here. He started to grow pine and 

 spruce seeds from western localities witli good success. He planted 

 out twelve or fourteen hundred seedlings of P. ponderosa from the 

 collection, but they have gradualh' died out ; a fungus attacked the 

 bark, and eventually destroyed them. There is a tree in the 

 Botanic Garden at Cambridge, grown from native Colorado seed, 

 which is a good plant. Pseudotsnga taxifoUa has sometimes 

 been called Pseudolsuga Douglasii, and Abies Doiiglasii ; Avhen 



