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TRANSPLANTING. 
in flower through the winter and spring; they also bear winter 
culture. 
Hybrid Chinese. Gen. Allard, Gen. Kleber, Lady Stuart. 
Crimson Chinese. Belle de Florence, Fabvier, Marjolin, Heine 
d’Angleterre. 
Tea-scented. Bride of Abydos, Caroline, La Sylphide, Laura, 
Nina.] 
OBSERVATIONS ON TRANSPLANTING. 
The planting, or more properly transplanting, of trees and 
shrubs, both deciduous and evergreen, is a subject likely to 
engage attention in the course of the next two or three months; 
and, judging from the manner in which the operation is but too 
commonly performed, it would seem that some further instruc¬ 
tion is yet required to make the principles on which the work 
should be conducted, more generally understood. One of the most 
important questions connected with the subject, is the time most 
proper for its performance : on this head various opinions have 
been expressed by practical men, some preferring the autumn, 
others the spring months, and even Midsummer has been re¬ 
commended for the removal of evergreens ; but as practice is often 
influenced by extraneous circumstances probably unknown to, 
and not thought of by the operator, it may be well to look a little 
further for advice, and in the physiology of the plants themselves 
seek a reason for preferring this or that particular time. 
The principal inspiratory organs of a plant are its roots, and 
it is well known there exists a most intimate and mutually de¬ 
pendent connexion between them and the other parts of every 
vegetable form, through which an injury offered to the one 
becomes an indirect infliction on the other; and hence if we would 
preserve the trunk, branches, and leaves, we must, as a primary 
measure, consult the welfare of the roots. Ordinary trees and 
shrubs are furnished with roots, which, springing from a common 
centre, extend themselves downwards and laterally, throwing out 
at irregular intervals, other smaller roots, which again ramify in 
every direction ; each of these rootlets has the power of extending 
itself by means of a perpetually accumulating matter received 
