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productive, but it is not first rate in quality. The kind growing 

 largest is the Monitor — quality not high. To my taste I like the 

 white Mercer best. For a late variety, and which will keep well, 

 I prefer the white Peach Blow. I am much pleased with the 

 Early Cottage for summer use. 



TRANSPLANTING FOREST TREES FOR SHADE. 



Mr. D. Bishop, Leavenworth, Kansas. — Many more people -would 

 go on new farms if the prospect for having shade trees were not so 

 distant, and I would like to know if there is an easy way of trans- 

 planting them. 



Dr. J. C. V. Smith, Boston, Mass. — I can tell you what is doing 

 in Paris, where they are making many new streets. No sooner is 

 a street completed than trees taken from the countiy are brought 

 in on large drays, and immediately there is shade through the 

 whole extent. At Nahant, near Boston, Mr. Tudor buys all kinds 

 of trees, where improvements are going on. He even takes old 

 fruit trees, and carts them from seven to nine miles, and they do 

 well and bear fruit. When Daniel Webster bought his farm at 

 Marshfield, and he was commencing to make improvements, I 

 begged the privilege of removing some large plum trees which 

 were in a back lot, and which they were going to cut down. This 

 being granted, I hired a number of men, and in the dead of winter 

 we went and dug around in a diameter of eight feet, and with 

 pries we took up a mass of frozen roots and earth two and a half 

 feet thick. They were transported seven miles. Next spring they 

 blossomed and bore fruit, and have continued to do so to this day. 



Mr. Wm. Lawton, New Kochelle, N. Y. — In front of the new 

 hotel, at Saratoga, they have transplanted trees a foot and a half 

 in diameter. Mr. Tudor, at Nahant, protects his trees by a paving 

 of flat stones. Once he planted a peach orchard, and covered it 

 over with a roof of boards. Nothing is more certain than that 

 large trees can be transplanted with great facility. Every branch 

 has a corresponding root, and for as many roots as remain branches 

 can be retained. This year, in making improvements, I have trans 

 planted nearly twenty large evergreens, of native and foreign 

 varieties; some of them are twenty years old, and have branches 

 close to the ground; and, though the work was done only two 

 months ago, a stranger could not detect the removal. I dug a 

 trench around the tree, and had a dray and three men. People 

 lose a great deal of time by not transplanting trees. Still, 1 would 



