The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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MOVING TREES IN WINTER. 



TEN days ago, I selected two young Red Pine trees, which I determined 

 to transplant to my grounds. They are about twelve years old, stand- 

 ing sixteen feet high, and measuring nearly six inches through the 

 trunk. The limbs growing low near the ground somewhat interfered with my 

 operation. However, I had a trench dug about the trees eighteen inches 

 deep, and as wide, leaving about five feet of earth about the trees; the snow 

 was kept away so that the earth soon froze solid. But to-day with strong 

 levers three men soon managed to pry up the ball containing the roots, and 

 after breaking several chains in endeavoring to move it we found that 

 there was more earth than was necessary frozen at the bottom of the roots, 

 so that we reduced the thickness of the ball to eighteen inches. Then the 

 trees were easily rolled out and on to a stone-boat by the aid of a strong team, 

 and drawn to their new position. The earth was frozen as solid as rock, so 

 there is no doubt but the trees will do well. The hired help will cost me 

 nearly four dollars per tree. But imagine a fine Red Pine with its great 

 dark green branches spreading over a space of ten or twelve feet, decorat- 

 ing a lawn for so trifling a sum. 



Gravenhurst, Jan. i6, 1890. J. P. COCKBURN. 



THE PLACES TO PLANT TREES. 



THERE are a few words on this subject by a leading Washington 

 authority I should like to lay before your readers : " Most of the 

 inethods recommended and described in American newspapers for 

 planting forests, presuppose that the ground to be planted is arable, or at 

 least, workable with the spade. This may be all right for the prairie States, 

 yet there are probably on every farm in the mountainous regions more 

 waste places than anywhere else, that will never pay to get the stones out, 

 that will not grow any grass of value and that defy all cultivation. 

 There are others which are too wet, and on account of their nature, drain- 

 age for agricultural use is impossible or unprofitable ; others again, which, 

 on their dry, shifting sand, will not bear any crop. These are the very 

 places to which, in time, the forests in every well-settled country will be 

 more or less confined, the better portions being needed for farming pur- 

 poses ; and, fortunatel}' enough, not only can such places be made to bear 



