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•sidea this,.,tiie foliage of the tulip-tree is as clean and fresh at all 

 times as the bonnet of a fair young quakeress, and no insect mars 

 Qie pjirity of its rich fohage. . ' 



We know, veiy well, that the tulip-tree is considered diflBcult to 

 transplant. It is, the gai;deners will tell you, much easier to plant 

 a,ilanthuses, or, if you prefer, maples. Exactly, so it is easier t,o walk 

 tt^an to dance— -but as all pfiople who; wish to be graceful in their 

 gait learn to dance ^ they can get an opportunity), so all planters 

 Tjho wish a peculiarly elegant tree, will learn how to plant the lirio- 

 d^ndron. ^ In the< first place the soil' must be light and rich — better 

 than is at all necessaiy- for the maples — and if it cannot be made 

 light. and rich, then the planter must confine himself to maples. 

 Next, the tree must be transplanted' just about the time of com- 

 mencing its growth in the spring, and the roots must be cut as little 

 as possible, and not suffered to get dry till replanted.,, , 



There is one point ^hich, if attended to as it is in nurseries 

 abroad, would render the tulip-tree as easily transplanted as a maple 

 or a, poplar. We mean the practice of ciitting round the tree every 

 year in the nurseiy till it is remove4. This developes a ball of 

 fib/es, and soprepares the tree for the removal thai it feels noshock 

 at all.% Nurserymen <5ould well afford to grow tulip-trees to the 

 size suitable for street planting, and have them twice cut or removed 

 Jbeforehand, so as to enable them to warrant their growth in any 

 gopd soil, for a dollar apiece. (And we believe the average price 

 at .jjvrh^ch. the Ijiousands of noisome ailanthuses that now West our 

 streets have been sold, is above a. dollar.) No, buyer pays so much 

 and so willingly, as the citizen who has only one lot front, and five 

 dollars each has been no uncommon price in New-York for " trees 

 of heaven." ' ' • 



After our nurseryinfen have practised awhile this preparation of 



the tulip-trees for the streets by previous removals,, they will gradu- 



1 aEy find a demand for the .ffner oaks, beeches, and other trees now 



considered difficult to transplant for the same cause — and "about 



which there is no difficulty at all, if this precaution is taken. A.ny 



* In manj continental nur^ei-ies, this annual preparation in the nureery, 

 takes place until fruit trees of bearing size can be removed without the 

 slightest injury to the crop of the same year. 



