McNaB—PLANTING OF HARDY EVERGREENS. 335 
will seldom take in so much as it will = in spring or autumn. 
en planted in winter they will scarcely ever require any 
seaering during ne anne summer, finlese should prove ae 
ess the plants are of a pretty he size. 
Sitrary, if a ear late in spring, they will, iP sae eral, require 
once Watering during the summer to ensure the e success as in 
those planted in winter; the same holds good with those planted 
nsure the same success and save labour in water ing. The 
advantages of winter planting are so pith and Paaioegiats oot it 
seems strange they should have been overlooked. I am uaded 
that it is be. theory that has excited all the es that exists 
on the subject. We are told that evergreens planted i 
push out no roots till spring set their juices in ratioK: and that, 
therefore, while in this state of inaction , they run eat risk of 
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into a mass, the roots e evergreens will grow ; but we never have 
such aantinaance of severe frost in this country. During the 
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or beginning of May following, he will find they will have made a 
considerable number of fresh roots between the time he put them 
in and the time he took them up. Every nurseryman knows, that 
Weather of summer comes son? For, by having such roots, they will 
be better able to resist injury than if they had to make them after 
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I do ean to say that all the evergreens that have been 
Planted in the Royal Botanic Garden within these few years have 
been planted in the winter, both in the dry part of the garden 
and in the wet part, and all have done inal well. 
