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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
of the year, or with balls of earth attached, and a few planters 
yet hold to these early views ; but those of more practice find 
that it is no more difficult to transplant an evergreen when taken 
from the nursery than to perform the same operation with any 
deciduous tree. It is true there are exceptions among evergreens, 
some proving more difficult than others, but the instances or 
kinds are not more numerous than with deciduous trees. 
In transplanting, it is only requisite to remember that the tree 
has its leaves on, and that there is consequently a constant de- 
mand upon the roots for evaporation, and therefore it will not 
do to permit them to get dry. With small-sized trees, a root 
nearly corresponding with the top is generally procured when 
the trees have been rightly grown in the nursery, and cutting 
in the top is unnecessary; but in the case of removal of trees 
six feet or more in height, unless extraordinary care is taken, a 
great reduction of root is the result, and then it is advisable 
always to shorten in the length of the branches corresponding 
with the apparent loss of roots the tree has sustained. 
A very great variety of evergreens have been introduced dur- 
ing the past fifteen or twenty years, but of them tew have proved 
of a hardihood or beauty to command notice as trees for popu- 
lar use ; and as in these pages we write for the general public 
rather than for a few amateurs, we shall only describe such as 
may be safely depended upon in all locations. 
The White Pine. Finns strains . — The White or Weymouth 
Pine is common in various parts of the Union, and deserving 
of a first place in every collection. It is of rapid growth, beau- 
tiful in every stage, from a small plant of one foot high to that 
of a stately tree towering one hundred or more feet in the air, 
and swaying its horizontal tiers of branches and tufts of airy 
light-green foliage to the breeze. When grown in strong soil 
it acquires a thick, compact form; but in soils of a gravelly 
or sandy nature, somewhat dry and poor, its shoots and trunk 
