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Transplanting of Evergreen Shrubs. 



forms the summer resort, and the lower the winter one. At the 

 bottom of the forest is the Lynn of Dee, a boiling caldron of 

 100 yards or so in diameter; the Dee being confined within 

 precipitous rocks, not above a step from bank to bank. Shortly 

 after this you appi'oach Mar Lodge, beautifully situated in a 

 recess formed by the river, with a wooded hill above; and, 

 shortly after this, the picturesque alpine village of Braemar, 

 one side of which belongs to Lord Fife, with the Fife Arms inn; 

 and the other, and more modern, to the Invercaulds, who have 

 built a beautiful inn close to the spot where the unfortunate Earl 

 of Mar hoisted his standard in 1715. The remains of Malcolm 

 Canmore's shooting lodge is also shown here.. You are now 

 fairly in Deeside ; and, as I have already diverged from my 

 subject, of its beauties 1 shall not descant; merely remarking 

 that I observed every where that the planted Scotch pine is, in 

 every instance, a totally different tree from the plant which 

 springs indigenously ; and that a sight of Braemar Forest is well 

 worth a visit of any arboriculturist, even from the more southern 

 parts of the island. 



Muirdrum, Dec. 27. 1836. 



A very characteristic sketch of a 

 group of Scotch pines was made for 

 our Arboretum Britannicum by W. 

 Nesfield, Esq., landscape-gardener, of 

 wh'ich^g. 29. is an engraving, reduced 

 to the scale of 1 in. to 50 ft. The 

 highest of these trees is 75 ft. ; and the 

 diameter of the trunk, at 6 ft. from the 

 ground, is 6 ft. 



Art. VIII. On the Transplanting or Removal of Evergreen Shrubs. 



By R. Gl-ENDINNING. 



The removal of evergreen shrubs is a very important con- 

 sideration in ornamental gardening; and much, therefore, is due 

 to your intelligent correspondent Mr. Rutger, in directing the 

 attention of your readers to it, so as to resolve the proceeding 

 into something other than a mere speculative operation. 



The following hints are applied to the transplanting of large 

 plants, as small ones may be removed at almost any season with 

 nearly equal success. In the prosecution of some alterations, 

 which have involved the planting of numerous large evergreens, 

 and in considerable variety, immediate effect being desired, 

 opportunities presented themselves of comparing extensively the 

 result of the various seasons, and marking the effect of each. I 

 may premise that an opinion, and not an erroneous one, is com- 



