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moving by means of a root pruning machine which cuts around 

 underneath the tree. The ball thus cut is allowed to freeze solid, 

 when the entire mass is moved to its new home, packed into place, 

 and guyed with ropes. 



Roses may be planted during the autumn season as well as in 

 spring, but they should be well protected. Hilling the earth up 

 eight or ten inches about the plants will shed water, which in 

 winter is the damaging element to roses — and an additional pro- 

 tection of leaves or straw over the hills will keep the plants from 

 alternately freezing and thawing. 



There is always the danger that roses and perennials will be 

 eaten off by mice and other vermin which burrow beneath the pro- 

 tective layers of straw and leaves; against these pests outdoors, 

 traps and cats and "Paris green" are of little avail. 



Most of the hardy perennials are best planted in the fall — be- 

 cause they start to grow very early in the spring, and interrupting 

 this growth by the process of transplanting means practically a 

 season's set back to the plants. The work should be begun in 

 August, however, and ended if possible by the first of November. 



Lilies and Dutch bulbs, in which latter term are included 

 tulips, narcissi, hvacinths, crocus, squills, chionodoxa, etc., like- 

 wise need to be planted in the fall, for outdoor work. 



Spring planting of trees and shrubs may be done as soon as suf- 

 ficient frost is gone to leave the ground workable; it is very de- 

 sirable although not absolutely necessary to accomplish it before 

 the leaves come out, because if the planting is done after the leaves 

 arrive they wither and drop, and while the bush or tree is form- 



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