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to their growth : so that they are capable of making 

 good an injury to their roots much more speedily than 

 deciduous plants ; especially as in the majority of 

 cases the roots are numerous and fibrous, and not so 

 liable to extensive mutilation when transplanted. 

 Now, if an evergreen is planted in the month of May, 

 and the weather happens to be cloudy, mild, and 

 damp, as the plant .is just then commencing the re- 

 newal of its growth, and is forming fresh roots abun- 

 dantly, if such a state of weather lasts for a week or 

 two, there is no doubt that the plant will succeed very 

 well ; and so it will if removed at midsummer. In 

 the year 1822, in the month of August, there were 

 planted in the garden of the Horticultural Society of 

 London above 6000 Hollies from two to three feet 

 high, for the purpose of forming fences : few plants 

 in all that number ever exhibited any traces of hav- 

 ing been removed, and I do not believe that a hun- 

 dred died. The weather was dry ; but the plants 

 were deluged with water when placed in their holes, 

 and they had been obtained from the Eegent's Park, 

 where they grew in the stiff plastic clay of that side 

 of London ; the consequence of which was, that, when 

 taken out of the ground, so much earth adhered to 

 them, that they were almost in the state of plants re- 

 moved from pots. Now, is this a case to justify 

 planting Hollies in the month of August? Surely 

 not ; it only shows that it may be done under a com- 

 bination of very propitious circumstances. There 

 may be local conditions of a permanent nature, owing 

 to the peculiarity of climate, in which those advan- 



