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Fall Planting and Winter Protection of 
Evergreen Seedlings. 
In our practice we have been very successful in transplanting and 
heehng-in Evergreen Seedlings, in the months of August 'and Septem- 
ber, by mulching or shading the plants in the dry and hot months. 
In heeling-m plants for the winter the plants should be in thin layers 
(to prevent heating and thereby injuring the foliage) with very fine 
earth closely packed on the roots, and tops of each of the layers of 
plants are lapped over the earth covered roots of the previous layer. 
The beds of plants, thus heeled-in, are then lightly covered with wild 
hay (thin enough to exclude sunlight, but not thick enough to ex- 
clude access of air) thus preventing injury to the foliage, and protect- 
ing the new root formation from the disastrous effects that would 
otherwise result froni the too sudden withdrawal of frost in winter or 
spring. In practicing each of these methods we find the plants <^ain 
nearly one season of root growth. South of this latitude fall planting 
or heeling-in may be delayed from two to six weeks later in the sea- 
son, according to the locality. 
All plants in seed beds, and all beds of transplanted Evergreens 
and Larch, go through the winter in better condition if covered with 
wild hay and not uncovered until the withdrawal of frost in the spring. 
Shearing Ornamental Evergreens, 
As ^e beauty of hedges, and Evergreens planted singly in lawns, is 
dependent upon their symetry of form and compactness of growth as 
well as to such peculiarities in color, length of foliage, and forms of 
cones, as are incident to the species ; hence gardeners have practiced 
shearing Arborvitaes, Junipers, Norway Spruce, etc. Many, if not all 
of the the Pines may be sheared at the time the trees are making their 
annual growth, by having the current seasons growth shortened. The 
cutting may be made while the new growth is in a succulent state, at 
the time when it can be broken off, without peeling the bark, 'the 
proper season for shearing usually lasting ten to fourteen days When 
the shearing is done at the right period of growth, terminal buds will 
be formed at the point of cutting, and frequently side-bud formation 
will also take place on the current season’s growth of wood. The 
Scotch Pine, which is not only a fast, but sometimes a stragling as 
well as an open grower, may be, by means of shearing, formed into a 
very compact, bushy and highly ornamental tree, and worthy of oc- 
cupying small spaces in grounds to which it would not be adapted 
Without shearing. ^ 
