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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1907 



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and dried-up appearance, due to the loss of 

 moisture during the winter. 



Iowa. A. T. Erwin. 



WHY AUGUST IS HANDICAPPED 



There is nothing to gain by autumn 

 planting of evergreens when it can be 

 done in spring. May is the best time for 

 this latitude. Some growth is made the 

 first season, and it is almost normal the next. 

 A Norway spruce near my house made more 

 than a foot of growth the first season. The 

 late Mr. Hunnewell moved some junipers — 

 old trees — a couple of miles in September 

 with perfect success. For many years I 

 have moved large evergreens with frozen 

 balls in winter without mishap; I should 

 hesitate to move such in springtime. Spruce, 

 yews, arborvitses, and most of the cypress 

 family, move better than pines and firs. I 

 should hesitate to move the two latter in the 

 autumn. They have few fibrous roots, and 

 do not hold a ball of earth. 



Fall planting is done by some people for 

 the only reason that they have time to do it. 

 A tree planted in August goes into the winter 

 handicapped. Evaporation goes on every 

 day, when the thermometer is above freezing, 

 and the trees have few, if any, active roots 

 to depend upon. When one can plant as 

 late as the first week in June, I see no excuse 

 for August planting. 



Mass. T. D. Hatfield. 



WINTER PLANTING FOR THE SOUTH 



In this climate it is impracticable to plant 

 evergreens in August. We have to depend 

 upon planting evergreens after the first 

 killing frost — that is during November, 

 February and March. 



Georgia. P. J. Berckmans. 



LATITUDES IN CONNECTICUT 



Probably nine-tenths of my evergreen 

 plantings during the last five years have been 

 in the spring as soon as the ground is in 

 good condition to work. The remainder has 

 been mostly planted in August or early Sep- 

 tember; occasionally for special reasons I 

 have planted quite late in the fall, but do not 

 like to do so. I feel surer of the spring 

 planting, although the August plantings have 

 turned out well, unless followed by a long 

 spell of dry weather. 



Conn. G. A. Parker. 



A CONCLUSION FROM MILLIONS 



The best time to plant coniferous trees is 

 in the spring as soon as the soil becomes 

 warm, and before the buds have lengthened 

 too much. This will usually give a season 

 of about a month's duration for the work. 

 I have never tried August planting in the 

 United States. When I once asked the 

 veteran Robert Douglas, who planted mil- 

 lions of trees in the West for railroad com- 

 panies, he said, "Never try it." Should 

 conditions of moisture and temperature be 

 such, after August or September planting, as 

 to induce root growth sufficient to carry the 

 trees through the winter, the operation would 

 result in success. Such conditions, however, 

 are not to be expected over a large part of 

 the country. 



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