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In transplanting any of these beauties often requi- 

 site, and the most interesting of garden operations 

 success may be insured any time in summer by using 

 mats for a shade, arid regular watering; but the 

 best seasons are the beginning of September, in 

 moist weather, and of May, when the young shoots 

 are commencing. The main care is the lifting: 

 any ordinary workman is sure to murder your plant. 

 Take the spade and mark out a ring as wide as the 

 branches; and then order a trench, without the slight- 

 est reference to the lifting of the tree, and see it 

 straight down as deep as any roots can be. Then, 

 for the first time, let it be understood that the pick 

 may work in beneath towards the centre. The 

 more earth that can be got to adhere the better; 

 but failing that, let the roots in their new stance be 

 spread in successive tiers, with layers of fine mould 

 interposed watering, staking, and tying, as noticed 

 in the planting of hollies. 



The following, not ever green, may be added; for 

 though the former list may afford enough of beauty 

 for the winter, it will always be found that the best 

 assortment of evergreens have a certain dullness in 

 summer, unless relieved by deciduous plants, which 

 have brighter blossoms and livelier tints of green. 

 Wherefore have roses without number the Ayr- 

 shire for sprawling over anything that ought to be 

 hid, and the Indian, once the tenant of a flowerpot, 

 now the hardiest of garden roses, bringing forth its 

 sweet buds till they are nipt in December. It is of 

 the easiest multiplication by slips : of a hundred in- 

 serted in light soil with a mixture of peatmoss, few 

 will fail to become trees. The mizereon, of pink or 



