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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1907 



Spring planting at Stamford, Connecticut. All kinds of evergreens are moved in Maj 



they must be properly supported to keep them 

 in position. In August there is no trouble 

 from winds and the plants become thoroughly 

 settled before the fall winds. 



If your first efforts in planting evergreens 

 are not crowned with success, don't criticise 

 the season too severely, for the fault may 



have been your own. When planting, get 

 all the roots you can, give the soil plenty of 

 water and give a mulch of loose manure, and 

 you will find that August planted evergreens 

 will never get a check. 



Seedlings of the red cedar {Jimiperus 

 Virginiana) which are abundant in our 



A COMPARISON OF SPRING-PLANTED AND AUGUST-PLANTED CONIFERS 



COMMON NAME 



Colorado blue spruce.. 



White spruce 



Oriental spruce 



White pine 



Red pine 



Hemlock 



Carolina hemlock 



Blue Atlantic cedar.. . . 



Grecian fir 



White fir 



Tiger-tail spruce 



Englemann's spruce.. . . 



Douglas spruce 



Retinispora 



Arborvitae 



Juniper 



Deodar cedar 



STANDARD NAME 



Picea pungens, var. glaucc 



Picea alba 



Picea orientalis 



Pinus Strobus 



Pinus resinosa 



Tsuga Canadensis 



Tsuga Caroliniana 



Cedrus Atlanlica, var. glaucc 



Abies cephalonica 



Abies concolor 



Picea polita 



Picea Engelmanni 



Pseudotsuga Douglasii 



Chamtecyparis pisifera 



Thuya occidentalis 



Juniperus communis 



Cedrus Deodara 



WHEN PLANTED 



August 



Aug., Sept., Spring. . . . 



Aug., Spring 



Aug., Sept., Spring . . 



Aug., Sept 



Aug., Sept., Spring. . . 

 Aug., Sept., Spring. . . 



Aug., Spring 



Aug., Spring 



Aug., Sept 



Sept., Spring 



Aug., Sept 



Aug., Sept., Spring. . . . 

 Aug., Sept., Spring. . . 

 Aug., Sept., Spring. . 

 Aug., Sept., Spring. . . 

 August 



to 15 ft. 



to 6 ft. 



to 5 ft. 



to 18 ft. 



to 8 ft. 



to 6 ft. 



to 6 ft. 



to 12 ft. 



to 7 ft. 



to 8 ft. 



to 6 ft. 



to 6 ft, 



to 18 ft. 



3 to 4 ft. 



Did well 



All good 



Spring best, Aug. good 



All good 



Both good 



Spring best 



Spring best 



Spring best 



Aug. died, Spring lived 



Did well 



Both good 



Did well 



Spring planted best 



All good 



All good 



All good 



Did well 



These evergreens were transplanted in August without the loss of a single specimen. (At Islip, Long Island) 



woods, are very hard to transplant; they 

 have a long tap root which cannot be taken 

 up whole. I have moved thousands of these 

 cedars from the woods but never with any 

 success unless done in August. One place 

 presented special difficulties; it was a point 

 of land projecting into a salt-water creek. I 

 failed twice with spring planting, but an 

 August planting was very successful, my 

 losses not being more than 2, per cent. 



Two years ago, I moved a hundred ever- 

 greens without a single loss; the plants did 

 not brown a particle as they are apt to do 

 when moved in spring. 



The plants included the box (Buxus 

 sempervirens and B. latifolia), the plumed 

 Japan cypress (Chamcecy parts pisifera, var. 

 plumosa), the golden plumed cypress (C. 

 pisifera, var. plumosa aurea), the silver 

 plumed cypress (C. pisifera, var. argentea) 

 and the ragged or squarrose leaved Japan 

 cypress (C. pisifera, var. squarrosa), the 

 pyramidal arborvitas (Thuya occidentalis, 

 var. pyramidalis) , Peabody's arborvitae 

 (Thuya occidentalis, var. George Peabody), 

 the red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana), the 

 dwarf mountain pine (Pinus montana, var. 

 Mugho), the English yew (Taxus baccata) 

 and the golden Chinese arborvitae (Thuya 

 orientalis). 



The secret of a great many failures with 

 August planting is the neglect to puddle and 

 mulch. The ground will usually be quite 

 dry in August, and though the plant normally 

 requires less moisture then than in fall or 

 spring, the extra dryness from the looseness 

 of the earth must be overcome when trans- 

 planting. 



Another Long Islander's Idea 



John F. Johnston, Long Island 



WHAT appears to me to govern success 

 is not so much the time of the year when 

 moving is done as the manner of handling the 

 plants from the time they are lifted until they 

 are again planted ; and especially the size of the 

 plant, whether it has balls of soil or not, the 

 quantity and condition of the roots, and the 

 distance of transportation. 



I am inclined to favor spring planting for 

 such evergreens as are not distinctly hardy, 

 because they are longer in their new quarters 

 before suffering the trials of March. I 

 prefer to plant hemlocks in the spring because 

 I have always had a greater percentage of 

 loss with fall planted stock. Also, I have 

 found the Nordmann fir (Abies Nord- 

 manniana) and the Douglas spruce (Pseudo- 

 tsuga Douglasii) do best when spring 

 planted. By no means, however, do I wish 

 to be considered as unfavorable to what is 

 commonly termed fall planting — from the 

 middle of August until the middle of Septem- 

 ber, or thereabouts. 



A large assortment of evergreens has 

 recently been planted in Mr. Dana's estate 

 at Glen Cove, Long Island, the planting 

 being done both in fall and in spring. The 

 results from both periods have been suc- 

 cessful as the accompanying table shows. 



For further information concerning the 

 practicability of planting evergreens in Au- 

 gust, see page 36. 



