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(^objects in the landscape; the former tapering, and the latter dark and X 

 ^ dense; both of rapid growth, and much neglected in our ornamental G 

 / work. It is true that large trees cannot be obtained of them in the 

 United States, but they are both of rapid growth, and in good pre- 

 pared soil will, when well established, grow from 2 to 5 feet every 

 season ; so that a tree of 2 feet high when planted, will be 15 or 20 

 feet high in ten years, or 40 feet high in 20 years, and they are trees 

 that will succeed well in our climate. The transplanting of large 

 evergreens, or indeed large trees of any kind, is more an object of 

 talk than a permanent ornament. How many failures are before my 

 eyes, and the eyes no doubt of many of your readers — we will quote 

 you one : On the Ridge road a few miles noi th of Philadelphia, about 

 7 years ago there were planted on a country seat some three or four 

 dozen of large Balm of Gileads, interspersed with a few of about 3 or 

 4 feet high. I recently saw the remains of a few of the larger that 

 appeared to be mere skeletons, unsightly objects, not a passable tree 

 amongst the $400 lot ; whereas the smaller trees are now 10 or 12 feet 

 high, and very perfect in shape and aspect; and if the soil had been 

 properly prepared for them, they would have been by this time 20 

 feet high. This property is now a cemetery, or I would not have 

 taken the liberty to have brought the subject to your notice. JVz7 

 desperandum should be the motto of the planter — never despair ; if 

 your plant has roots give it good soil, a dry bottom, and our exuberent 

 climate will make it grow, if its nature is suitable to our summer 

 sun. K. Buist. 



Agriculture — Green Crops. 



BY F. W T . CONNOR, DUBLIN. 



1 would furnish you with more copious remarks on the different 

 subjects connected with farm operations, but that I am aware of a 

 great diversity of climate and system prevailing in your country and 

 ours. I can only therefore safely expand on these matters which 

 cannot be affected by such differences, and confine myself to the 

 record of progress making amongst farmers here. Much has been 

 said about your American machines, and much has to be done to make 

 them available to the tenant farmer ; indeed they only serve in cases 

 of farms of great extent, which are few in this country in com- 

 parison with those of a few acres. Machinery is only applicable 

 to agriculture, where carried out to the greatest extent ; and we like 

 better to see a happy rural population, with small and comfortable 

 homesteads, than the vast tracts of half cultivated territory, over 

 which sheep run in wasteful herds. In your country the case is differ- 

 ent, there as yet the land is abundant and thinly peopled, and there- 

 \ fore operations must be carried on with little manual labour, so that 

 ^5 machinery is a necessity. 



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