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experiments have been made year after year to test the sound- 

 ness of that conclusion, and they have uniformly confirmed it. 



in September, 1849, the following work was done within my 

 own observation. 1. Some hundred feet of a Holly hedge, 

 about twenty-five years old, were transplanted, and although 

 from the dryness of the soil, badness of roots, and other 

 causes, there was great reason to fear the result, these plants 

 were in June, 1850, with a very small number of exceptions, 

 safe and growing. 3. A Holly-tree about twelve feet high, 

 forming part of the same hedge, which had been left for some 

 days with its roots covered by a mat, and was much dried, was 

 carried a quarter of a mile and replanted. It cast its old 

 leaves, and pushed weU. 3. The following plants were also 

 transplanted at the same time. Several common Laurels and 

 Portugal Laurels, from four to six feet high, dug out of a 

 shrubbery; seventy-five Ehododendrons, fourteen Arbor-Vitse, 

 four to five feet high ; sixteen Laurustinus ; nine Yews, four to 

 five feet high; four green Hollies of the same size, twd 

 Cupressus torulosa, and some .other plants. They were all 

 taken from the open quarters of a nursery, not having been 

 potted; the weather was hot and dry. The only casualty 

 among them consisted in one Arbor- Vitse having died. The 

 Cypresses were half killed by the winter; and a few of the 

 Yews made buds slowly, but lived. 



Mr. Glendinning urges the great importance of consider- 

 ing the temperature, of the soil in the autumnal months, and 

 prefers the earhest available period because of the higher 

 temperature of the soil at an early than at a late period. He 

 very justly says that early in the autumn the'roots of transplanted 

 evergreens find themselves in a " gentle bottom-heat." Mr. 

 Thompson's invaluable tables of ground temperature near 

 London show what is the real gain in this, respect. He found 

 the mean temperature of the soil, on an average of six 

 years, to be — 



