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the trench is filled in with loose soil, to have them formed 

 within the ball of earth, and not on the outside of it. This 

 he considered would enable him to remove the tree with a 

 ball, which he never could accomplish by the other method, 

 though he had practised it for five years, on from three to five 

 hundred trees annually. When the trench dug round the 

 tree is filled with loose earth, the young roots form in clusters 

 round the ends of the old roots, and the tree on removal ge- 

 nerally loses the whole of the earth which formed the ball. 



Mr. Munro only tried his plan on one tree, and soon after- 

 wards left that part of the country. We hope some of our 

 readers will repeat the experiment on a more extensive scale, 

 and let us know the result. They have only to bear in mind 

 the object in view, viz. that of creating a number of fibres in 

 the ball, to keep the. earth from falling away from the roots 

 when the tree is taken up for removal. Of course, when a 

 tree with a large top is prepared in this manner, it must, un- 

 less it be in a very sheltered situation, be supported by stakes, 

 to prevent it from being blown down by high winds. 



Art. Xlll. A netjo Arrangement of the Douhle-Jlo'wered Chinese 

 Chrysanthemums, tvith an improved Method of Cultivation. By 

 A. H. Haworth, Esq. F.L.S. &c., Author of *' Synopsis Plan- 

 tarum Succulentarum, Narcissinearum Monographia," &c. 



Sir, 



I HAVE the pleasure of sending you, hereunder, a new ar- 

 rangement of double Chinese chrysanthemums, for insertion, 

 if you please, in an early Number of that interesting and use- 

 ful publication, the Gardener's Magazine. 



To the new, and, I hope, improved location in my distri- 

 bution of these fine and much favoured plants, are added 

 some brief but characteristic descriptions of their size, time 

 of flowering, and appearance of their flowers ; together with 

 an epitomised method of the management, soil, and cultiva- 

 tion they require. And they are well worthy of all the care 

 and attention we can bestow upon them ; being not only at 

 present one of the finest hardy herbaceous groups in the flower- 

 garden, and remaining with us in bloom by much the latest ; 

 but they will hereafter, through the medium of their very 

 sportive seeds, become far more numerous, more various, more 

 beautiful, and more attractive than ever. 



Seven years have passed away since any published informa- 

 tion has been added to our knowledge of these hardy and 

 conspicuous flowers ; the last account, as far as the writer can 

 find, being that given by Mr. Sabine, in the Transactions of 



