THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



MAY, 1844. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. On Transplanting Fruit Trees in the autumn; 

 and some account of a mode of autumn grafting of fruit 

 bea7'i?ig b>anches, ivith a view to obtain fruit the following 

 year. By Capt. Josiah Lovett, 2d, Beverly, Mass. 



Dear Sir, — In a conversation a short time since, you 

 requested me to put in writing my views on autumn trans- 

 planting of fruit trees, (Sec, together with my mode of per- 

 forming the same. I will now endeavor to do so. Although 

 familiar with farming, and the mode of gardening in the 

 country towns, from my youth, to the age of about 16 

 years ; yet from that period to within the last ten years, I 

 have ploughed the ocean. It is consequently but a few 

 years since I began to pay particular attention to horticul- 

 ture. In this short experience (I plant and transplant 

 with my own hands), I have found it best in my soil, which 

 is mostly a clay loam, upon a subsoil of stiff clay, to trans- 

 plant strawberries in August, pear, plum, and apple trees, 

 together with currant and raspberry bushes, in the latter 

 part of summer or early autumn. Thus far, T have been 

 most successful in those earliest transplanted ; say from the 

 20th of August to the last of September, according to the 

 season. The best time is immediately after the usual sum- 

 mer or autumn drought, when the summer growth of wood 

 has ripened. I prepare my ground by taking out two spad- 

 ings of soil, keeping the top spading to mix with the roots ; 

 making the hole at least a foot more in diameter than the 

 extent of the roots of the tree ; I then drive a single stake 

 in the position which I intend the tree to stand, not allowing 



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