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And w^ have hesitated setting out large trees, which we wish 

 to have on our places for ornament and for shade, for the same 

 reason. We now believe it to be our duty to communicate to our 

 readers the process which we have used with great success with 

 trees of large dimensions. The process is simple and costs but 

 iittle. 



Last November we transplanted one hundred poplars, from 



thirty to tliirty-five feet high, without taking off any part except 



dead wood and useless twigs. I put them in v;ell-stirred earth, 



and merely digging at the roots of eacli tree a ditch large enough 



to receive a drain tile of thr^e or four inches in diameter, and 



about three to four feet longjincliued from the surface of the soil 



to the centre of tlie roots. When spring comes, I pour water 



down these drains, to keep the roots moist constantly. The trees 



all go on to vegetate perfectly. I continue this watering during 



the lirst summer, and I find in the following autumn that new 



gi'owths are on all of them, to the extent of four to five feet. I 



succeed in the same way with large lilac bushes and others. The 



results have been as satisfactory as possible. Not one of my 



transplanted died. 



(Signed) LEON LE GUAY, 



STAINDROP FARMEES' CLUB, 



[London Farmers'' Magazine, Nov./ 1851.] 



We extract the following on the potato : — '• A native of South 

 America, supposed to have been brought from Virginia to Eng- 

 land by the colonists, sent out by Sir Vv^alter Raleigh in 1584, and 

 who returned in 1586, and •' probably," according to Sir Joseph 

 Banks, "brought with him the potato." 



Gerarde, in his Herbal, published in 1597, gives a figure of the 

 potato under the naaie of the Potato of Virginia whence, he says, 

 he received the roots; and this appellation it appears to have 

 retained, in order to distinguish it from tlie Batatas, or sweet po- 

 tato, till the year 1640, if not longer. It appears from Gough's 

 edition of Camden's Britania, that the potato was first planted by 

 Sir Walter Raleigh, on his estate at Youghal, near Cork, (Ire- 

 land,) and that it was cherished and cultivated for food in that 



