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groups with other trees, or by itself, as very beautiful. James Burt, the artist, 

 whose early promise was so high, and who, had he lived, would have well 

 fulfilled the mission to which he was called, used to speak of the birch, in 

 all its varieties, as peculiarly graceful and beautiful. Mr. Tudor has the 

 white ash and the white pine, raised from the seed. He has the horse chestnut, 

 the butternut, and the Madeira-nut bearing fruit ; also pears, apples, peaches, 

 plums, and quinces, all of which do well under the conditions mentioned 

 above — that is, shelter from violent winds. This condition is also necessary to 

 be observed inland, and the neglect to do so has been the cause of failure in 

 the planting of fruit and ornamental trees in numerous cases which have come 

 under the notice of the author. 



Mr. Tudor has also been very successful in the transplanting of large trees. 

 In a letter to the author he says, " I have done a good deal in transplanting old 

 and full-grown trees. I have removed forty or fifty apple and pear trees ten 

 miles or more, each tree being a load for two. horses. Some of these trees are 

 more than fifty years of age, and yet I have not lost one of them. The balm of 

 Gilead trees at Nahant, raised by myself, I have transplanted repeatedly, even 

 when they have attained to a large size. Last year I removed forty of these, 

 some of them at least sixty feet high, and from twelve to fifteen inches in 

 diameter at a foot or more from the ground. All these are doing well, as are 

 some forty others, nearly as large, transplanted the previous year." Mrs. Tudor 

 warmly sympathizes with her husband's noble work, and thus sets an example 

 to the fair daughters of our country, which we hope will induce many to use 

 their influence to the same end. She has herself planted trees, carrying with 

 her own hands the Madeira-nut tree into the interior of New York, thus intro- 

 ducing there a tree of which Mr. Tudor thinks much. ■ We shall endeavor to 

 give some account of this tree in the future. If every lady who has the oppor- 

 tunity would do thus, how soon would our whole country have distributed 

 through all its broad extent the various species of trees which contribute so 

 much to the comfort and support of the race ! It must be pleasant to look back 

 upon acts like this, and to remember that when we have passed away, the noble 

 trees will tell to those who come after us that we have not lived in vain. 



