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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



A Great Cherry Tree. — The largest and most valuable cherry tree in the 

 world is reported from California. Mr. R. Hector, of Placer County, is the 

 owner, and he reports having received a gross return during the past five years 

 of $i,8do ! The tree is now thirty-five years old and sixty feet high, and last 

 year yielded 300 ten pound boxes, valued at $1.50 each ! 



TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 



We very frequently hear the question, " What is the best time for trans- 

 planting evergreens?" And the most common reply is, the month of June. 

 The reason why May or June is a very favourable time for this work, is because 

 the foliage of the trees, not being deciduous, is continually losing moisture by 

 evaporation, and, therfore, to remove them at a time when the roots are dormant, 

 will cause a great loss of moisture to the tree. For this reason, it is evidently 

 unwise to remove evergreens in the fall or too early in the spring. Mr. W. C. 

 Strong, in a paper read before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society on this 

 subject, says that he has had wonderful success in removing evergreens in the 

 month of August, the heat of summer then being over, and the growth 

 of the tree having not yet ceased. He says that in 187 1 he removed 

 40,000 Spruce, Arbor Vitse, and pine trees, averaging from two to six feet in 

 height, and placed them on a site about one half a mile distant, and, although 

 the month of August of the subsequent fall was hot and dry, so that some wise- 

 acres predicted total failure, the success was complete, there not being a loss of 5 

 per cent. He also stated that he had planted in the samg month, some 6000 

 wild seedling pears from the Rocky mountains with a loss of only one-fifth. 



Have any readers had any experience in transplanting evergreens in the 

 month of August ? 



