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formed; in fact, as stated, the planting has gone on uninterruptedly 
all summer. When the trees arrive at the spot where they are to be 
planted, and for whose reception due preparation has been made, the 
wrapping is removed and the tree lowered into its quarters without 
touching the moss, but the new earth is carefully pressed firmly round 
the ball; The next operation is to envelope the stem up to the 
branches, and often higher, with moss, two or three inches thick, 
and this is again secured by coarse sacking sowed tightly round, so 
that each tree has the appearance of a huge sack, 15 or 20 feet 
high, with the top of a tree sticking out of the upper part; this 
wrapper keeps the moss tight round the stem. To complete the 
process a funnel-shaped vessel, made of zinc or tin, 10 or 12 inches 
wider in diameter than the stem of the tree, is placed above the moss, 
and afterwards soldered up with a close joint to hold water ; the lower 
and narrow part of the vessel fits closely round the stem of the tree 
underneath the sacking, and is plugged with any material which will 
prevent the water escaping too quickly; these funnels are filled each night 
(or oftener, perhaps) with water, by the men who water the roads ; this 
is done with hydrants with a force sufficient to wash the trees over¬ 
head as well, and the water slowly passes from them down the moss, 
keeping the bark moist, and preventing all evaporation ; what escapes 
from underneath the sacking at bottom helps to keep the roots moist. I 
have gone rather at length into this system of transplanting trees in full 
foliage and during an almost tropical summer, because I believe the 
system is entirely new and cannot fail to be of interest to those of your 
readers engaged in similar works ; the entire process is founded on 
strictly scientific principles, and has been most successfully carried out. 
The trees (which I carefully examined, from the interest I took in the 
matter), showed no appearance of flagging, although they will doubtless 
ripen off their foliage earlier than usual. That they will shoot vigo¬ 
rously in the spring, and ultimately make fine specimens, there can be 
no doubt. 
{To be continued.) 
s. 
SEAKALE. 
To grow this vegetable in the highest perfection, prepare the ground in 
December or January, by trenching it two feet and a half deep ; if not 
that depth naturally, and light, it must be made so artificially, by 
adding a due proportion of fine white sand, and very rotten vegetable 
mould ; if the ground is wet in winter it must be effectually drained, 
so that no water may stand within a foot at least of the bottom ; for 
the strength of the plants depends on the dryness of the bottom and 
richness of the soil. Then divide the ground into beds, four feet wide, 
with alleys of eighteen inches, after which, at the distance of every 
two feet each way, sow five or six seeds two inches deep, in a circle of 
about four inches diameter; this operation must be performed with 
strict care and regularity, as the plants are afterwards to be covered 
