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large pot, and trained round a pyramidal-shaped wire frame, the" 1 pot being 

 placed upon a wooden trellis which was on a warm flue. One plant I re- 

 cently saw that had been planted in a border in a stove but three years, 

 which, being regularly trained, covered a space of 600 superficial feet 

 against the trellis of a back wall, and was literally laden with its clusters of 

 flowers. It ought to be grown in every stove, warm conservatory, or green- 

 house. It can be procured, too, at a trifling cost. — Lon. Flor. Cabinet. 



A JOB WHICH DON'T PAY. 



Moving large trees from the woods on the frozen ball system in the winter 

 season is very prevalent in this part of the country, and I believe in -many 

 other places ; for. I have often read long stories about the successful opera- 

 tions of this kind, but we seldom hear anything of their future success. 



A great many people have not patience to wait until a tree grows, but 

 must have full grown ones planted at once to produce immediate effect. 

 This mode speaks for itself, as can be seen wherever it has been tried. 



I think that unsuccessful operations are about as instructive as successful 

 ones, the one tells what will do and the other what won't. With regard to 

 the frozen ball system of moving large trees from the woods, I have had 

 some experience, and like many others found no difficulty in planting, but 

 the rub was to make them grow. 



Three years ago I brought from the woods a great number of trees of va- 

 rious sorts, and for one that has flourished nin-e have died ; at the same time 

 I procured from a nursery a few small Elm trees hardly strong enough for 

 walking sticks, which were planted in the same situation ; to be sure they 

 were not such conspicuous objects at the first start, but now they are nice, 

 handsome trees, while those from the woods have nearly all disappeared. 



Having so many failures I thought I must have mismanaged the job in 

 some way, but in paying my neighbors a visit, I found some five or six of 

 them in the same predicament; their gounds were excellent examples of the 

 impropriety of planting large trees. There appeared to be considerable di- 

 versity in the way of planting, but as far as success was concerned all seemed 

 to be about on a par. Some are planted just as they came from the woods 

 with the head entire ; to save them from being blown down by high winds, 

 three pegs are driven into the ground in a triangular position to each of 

 which is attached a rope the other end of which is tied around the stem of 

 the tree about half way up. These ropes are often made of straw, which is 

 rather a picturesque feature in a pleasure ground. Another mode is to 



