Volume XXX Number 1 



AUGUST, 1919 



EVERGREEN transplanting has 

 become a recognized August 

 activity — not because the 

 height of summer offers the 

 ideally favorable conditions 

 for this work, but because at this 

 time it can be conveniently done. 

 Moreover the "peak" of active top 

 growth for the season has been reached, 

 and there is a short lull before the 

 second growth of early fall is made 

 by the roots. The plants are caught 

 as it were, taking their midseason 

 siesta. Hence in addition to being 

 convenient to handle them now, it is 

 culturally permissible and possible. 

 No planting that can be done at any 

 season with any other material is so 

 immediately effective as this of ever- 

 greens in the present month; and 

 nothing indeed parallels it in amazing- 

 ness save possibly that traditional 

 fame that finds a man overnight. Con- 

 sider for an instant what this picture 

 would be like without the spire-like 

 Cedars and overtopping Spruce. What 

 lies beyond we may not know; but 

 whether it is barren expanse of open 

 prairie-like land, a neighboring feature 

 of doubtful aspect, or a too close ap- 

 proach of the highway matters not. 

 What we see is trees — and trees that 

 will retain their present verdure and 

 beauty all the year through. Indeed 

 the picture may have been made on a 

 day in midwinter for all there is to in- 

 dicate otherwise. But the point is 

 that the whole thing may be repro- 

 duced, if not exactly overnight, at most 

 within a week's time. 



Every kind of conifer is included in 

 the planting possibilities of the month, 

 but do not undertake to transplant 

 broad-leaved evergreens as well. These 

 are more safely handled in early spring. 

 In making naturalistic groupings re- 

 member that there are always small 

 trees as well as large in nature plant- 

 ings, and mingle small sizes with large 

 accordingly, even though the purposeof 

 the group is to screen something that 

 only large trees will hide. 



The Garden 



Magazine 



IS THIS WINTER OR SUMMER? 

 All the year through a planting like this (that may be completed in a week's time) fulfils all that is 



expected or desired of it 



