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out to the inexperienced; for of course to all engaged largely in planting, 
experience will have dictated them, as facts which are not to be trifled 
with if you wish to succeed. In the first place, the soil, whether the 
planting is to be continuous in breadths of ground or only single specimens 
in holes, must be broken perfectly fine; indeed, the more pulverised 
and dry the soil with which you surround and cover the roots of newly 
planted trees the more quickly will new roots protrude into it. My plan 
is to work the surface soil which has been exposed to the sun for some 
time into a powder, and with this to cover the roots, giving only a veiy 
moderate quantity of water at planting. The next point is to have a 
puddle hole made near where your plants are being taken up, and 
directly they are out of the ground immerse the roots in the puddle, 
and work them about until every root is well coated over. The roots 
should be pruned before immersion. They should be then carried to 
the prepared ground at once, and carefully planted. If you have to 
carry or cart them any distance, envelope the roots in wet straw or 
moss, to prevent them from becoming dry before planting. Next take 
care that the heads of the trees are engined .over each evening about an 
hour before sunset, except when it rains ; and if you have time to 
syringe the leaves overhead two or three times daily, when the sun is 
not shining very powerfully on them, it will greatly assist in arresting 
perspiration from the foliage until the roots are in a position to 
supply the waste of the system by their usual action ; and lastly, 
mulch over the surface of the roots immediately after planting; and 
where the trees are large, moss or hay bands may be wrapped round 
the stem and principal branches, to facilitate the ascent of the sap and 
keep the bark moist. These points attended to it will be found that the 
plants will quickly rally, even where the summer’s growth has commenced, 
and but little water in comparison will be required to be given to the 
roots for some time; for experience teaches us that the roots renew 
themselves much more freely when the earth about them is only mode¬ 
rately moist and warm (which it will be if our plan is followed) than 
when placed in a cold unpulverised soil and deluged with water, as is 
too often the case. All the Abies section of Coniiers and some Pinus 
may safely be planted all through May with the above precautions. 
Cedars, Yews, Cryptomerias, Taxodiuins, Hollies, and Hex of all 
kinds and evergreens generally. We hope to transplant ?pruce and 
Silver Firs 20 to 25 feet high, and other evergreens in proportion; and 
reasoning by the suocess which has followed our previous trials, without 
any fear as to losing a single plant, although none of them have had any 
previous preparation. 
S. 
THE SLOUGH AURICULAS. 
Wednesday, the 10th of April, was indeed to me “ dies creta 
notanda,” for I enjoyed there such a floricultural treat as for many a 
long year I have not had; for although I saw last year the Monks- 
town Auriculas, and still hold to my opinion that I never saw a stage 
