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ling plants when raised at home, were taken from the seed 

 beds, when about two years old, and run in rows in the 

 nursery, the soil of which was a stiffish loam ; the plants 

 were placed about eight inches distant from each other 

 in the rows, and the rows themselves two feet apart. 

 After standing two years, they were moved to another 

 break of the nursery where the soil was of a similar or 

 rather stiffer quality, care being taken at the same time to 

 remove them with as much earth as possible attached to 

 the roots ; at this, their second transplanting, they were 

 placed at eighteen or twenty inches distance from each 

 other, and the rows about three feet apart. After stand- 

 ing there two years, the greater part were found fit for 

 putting permanently out ; and, from the nature of the 

 soil in which they had been reared, and the distance at 

 which they stood from each other, there was no difficulty 

 in removing them with their roots uninjured, and protected 

 by a large ball of clayey loam. 



Such as were thought unfit for planting out, or were 

 intended to be reserved for particular purposes, were again 

 transplanted into the stiff soil, taking care to increase the 

 distances between the individual plants and rows much 

 after the plan recommended by Boucher. After long and 

 extensive experience, having transplanted many thousand 

 evergreens of different kinds, we are persuaded that the 

 safest and best season for doing so is during the winter and 

 early spring months. It is acknowledged to be so in re- 

 gard to deciduous trees, and ought to hold equally good 

 with evergreens, as they also are subject to a certain de- 

 gree of torpidity during this period, or before they begin 

 to grow and push forth their new shoots ; their torpidity, 

 we allow, may not be so complete at any time as that of 



