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the names of trees without the inconvenience of carrying 

 your book under your arm. The labels are for daily use ; 

 the book keeps a permanent record, so that if a label be lost 

 the name of the tree does not go with it. It is quite pro- 

 voking to examine a friend's premises without being able to 

 learn the name of a single tree. Beside, every cultivator 

 should know the names of his trees as well as of his cattle ; 

 otherwise they will get local names, and the same fruit have 

 a new name in each orchard. 



TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 



THE general impression that evergreens are very difficult 

 to transplant is not well founded if one will observe a few 

 directions. 



The best time for transplanting is when the tips begin 

 to show fresh growth in spring. This is exactly the 

 reverse of directions in, English books, which denounce 

 spring, and enjoin fall transplanting in the climate of Eng- 

 land, doubtless with good reason ; and it is a good illustra- 

 tion of the caution necessary before imitating, in our 

 climate, the most skillful foreign practices. 



A friend informs us that he has always totally lost all 

 his fall transplantings ; not saving ten in a hundred ; and 

 other men say they have had similar experience, and it is 

 a settled fact that fall transplanting of evergreens is bad 

 practice. 



Ttie best method of removing is to lift the plant with as 

 many roots and fibres as possible. More care should be 

 i>sed in this respect than in the removal of fruit-trees; 

 indeed, there is little risk when good roots are obtained and 

 kept in a moist condition. In planting, the most successful 

 operators that we have seen, mix about half and half com 



