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considered a bold step in me (I tremble when I think of it), in the 
face of all the authorities already quoted, and in opposition to the 
opinion of a great proportion of the practical horticulturists in the 
country, to come forward and assert that the seasons usua 
season for planting evergreens than the seasons already recom- 
mended, I shall certainly have gained a considerable point. To 
render this not improbable, I may recall the attention of the reader 
to the fact, that the seasons recommended by the different writers 
me, 
the same day, with equal success, another material point is gained ; 
for when large plantations of evergreens are to be made, it will be 
found much more convenient to get them all from the nursery at 
the same time, and to plant them all at the same time, rather than 
to get one kind in spring, another in August, another in Septem- 
ber, another in October, and so on. 
may mention that I have planted evergreens at all seasons of the 
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alwa ‘S providing that the weather and the ground are favourable ; 
that is, supposing there is no frost, no drying wind, nor much 
fix on a dull day for winter planting, and moist day for spring and 
autumn planting. There can be no secret in the proper treatment 
