THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



OCTOBER, 1853. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. The best Season for Transplanting Trees. 



Subscriber. Which season do you prefer, Spring or Au- 

 tumn, for transplanting trees ? You have had some experience 

 in this matter, and as I find my neighbors differ much in their 

 opinions, I am anxious to have your advice. 



Editor. It is true there are various opinions upon this 

 matter. Many men, indeed a greater portion of those who 

 give such advice, sometimes rather dogmatically, never planted 

 more than a dozen trees, and those not more than once or 

 twice in their lives, — when, perhaps, making their garden 

 around their dwelling, — and as they, of course, chose the 

 season they thought the best, whether fall or spring, they ad- 

 vise all to do as they did. Their evidence is ex parte ; for 

 they never took hold of the thing experimentally, — planting 

 fall and spring for a series of successive years, — the only way 

 to test such a question. 



Sub. So I should think : but I find, too, people not only 

 differ as regards the general season of planting, but as regards 

 the kinds of trees suited to the season. 



Ed. Yes. I am aware of that : one cultivator states that 

 he prefers the spring for all kinds of trees ; another, that he 

 prefers the fall ; a third, prefers the fall for everything, except 

 peaches ; and others, would set out everything in the autumn 

 except stone fruit. 



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