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into the fresh soil, which they will quickly do in myriads from the wounded 

 surfaces of the old roots — at least from those parts where cellular matter is 

 abundant, and those parts are most likely to be where the roots are young, 

 namely, the outside of the ball. — [Gardeners' and Farmers' Journal.) 



Removing Large Trees. — Now that this subject is receiving so much 

 attention in the horticultural world, our readers will not be sorry to peruse 

 the following, from our much esteemed correspondent, Mr. D. Gorrie. 

 After expressing a highly favorable opinion of Mr. McGlashan's invention, 

 so far as he had had an opportunity of judging, he proceeds : — " With re- 

 gard to its general merits as a transplanter, I am, perhaps, not fitted to give 

 an opinion, being, from education and custom, prejudiced (if it is right to 

 employ such a word,) in favor of the plan which my father has always prac- 

 tised, and with much success, namely, not to remove a ball of earth at all, 

 but to work out the earth with a pronged instrument, so as to preserve, if 

 possible, every fibre and rootlet ; and when the tree has been removed, to 

 pack the earth carefully and firmly under and between the roots, so as not 

 to leave a single vacancy, spreading out the roots as the work proceeds, to 

 their full extent. I may state that he still adheres to the practice of light- 

 ening the heads of transplanted trees, in proportion to the number of root- 

 fibres that may have been inevitably lost — a practice the reverse of what 

 Sir Henry Stewart recommended. By so doing, he never requires to use 

 stakes for newly transplanted trees. He last year transplanted about forty 

 apple trees, from twenty to thirty years old ; and though the succeeding 

 spring Avas excessively dry, only four or five of them failed, and some bore 

 well-swelled fruit. He never entrusts the work to grown-up laborers, as he 

 finds them not careful enough ; but procures two boys, and trains them on 

 purpose, prohibiting them from working too fast, and of course bringing 

 men and horses, if required, for removing the trees, when the boys give 

 warning that every root has been made free. — [Id.) 



Art. II. Domestic JVbtices. 



Glazing Sashes without Putty. — In your " Retrospective View of 

 the Progress of Horticulture, for 1852," you speak of a writer in the 

 Philadelphia Florist, who thinks the mode of glazing without puttying 

 the glass, is neiv, and should be called " American." Whether you were 

 the first to adopt it in this country, or not, I cannot say ; but this I do know, 

 that it neither originated with you, nor with the writer in the Philadelphia 

 Florist. The mode has been practised, to my knowledge, over twenty years 

 in England, and some of the handsomest hothouses in that country are 

 glazed in that manner. I remember a carpenter making a number of hot- 

 bed sashes and glazing them in this manner, some twenty years ago ; but 

 the gardener, for whom they were made, refused to have them, and tlie car- 

 penter had to take them back and, putty in the glass. The system has never 



