7TLIED  RURAL,  NEW-YORKER 
7 
The  Home  Acre 
I  sec  that  K..  on  page  1435,  advises 
against  transplanting  evergreens  in  the 
Fall.  I  was  advised  against  it  last  year, 
hut  as  I  never  have  time  for  that  kind  of 
work  in  the  Spring  I  decided  to  try  it. 
About  the  first  of  December,  after  the 
ground  had  begun  to  freeze  and  the  first 
snow  had  come,  we  moved  nine  native 
White  pines  from  our  woods  to  the  home 
grounds.  These  trees  were  about  eight 
feet  high.  We  intended  to  dig  them  with 
a  ball  of  earth,  hut  they  seemed  to  be 
shallow  rooted,  and  the  earth  was  too  dry 
to  hang  oil  at  all.  Wo  got  very  few  small 
roots,  hut  did  get,  where  possible,  four 
or  five  feet  of  the  large  roots,  which  were 
brittle  and  easily  broken.  Tn  fact  we  had 
such  trouble  getting  good  roots  that  I 
was  afraid  we  should  not  save  the  trees 
at  all.  In  spite  of  this,  and  of  the  unusu¬ 
ally  severe  season,  all  came  through  in 
good  shape.  They  were  well  watered 
when  set,  but  I  think  the  most  important 
point  was  that  they  were  well  mulched 
with  strawy  horse  manure.  At  the  same 
time,  we  dug  30  small  hemlocks  four  feet, 
tall,  and  lost  every  one.  This  is  the  third 
attempt  we  have  made  with  hemlock  from 
the  woods,  and  none  has  succeeded.  It 
would  be  interesting  to  get  the  experi¬ 
ence  of  others  on  moving  native  trees 
and  shrubs,  as  I  am  convinced  that  some 
can  lie  handled  much  more  successfully 
than  others.  Not  far  from  your  inquirer 
is  a  large  nursery  that  makes  a  specialty 
of  moving  large  trees  at  all  seasons  of  the 
year  with  conspicuous  success. 
The  statement  of  K.  that  no  one  should 
think  of  planting  our  wild  roses  except 
for  some  very  special  purpose,  should 
also,  I  think,  be  modified.  1 1  is  general 
argument  would  probably  he  that  Euro¬ 
pean  or  horticultural  varieties  should 
generally  he  planted,  a  position  that  we 
are  rapidly  progressing  away  from.  If 
there  is  only  room  on  the  home  grounds 
for  a  couple  of  dozen  shrubs,  perhaps 
single  specimens  of  particularly  beautiful 
ones  would  exclude  most  of  the  natives. 
But  where  any  mass  effect  can  be  had, 
the  native  shrubs  should  certainly  have 
the  preference.  Aside  from  the  laurel 
(which  we  ought  to  ho  able  to  transplant 
ourselves,  for  it  is  offered  by  the  carload 
from  Southern  woods,  and  than  which 
perhaps  nothing  in  the  world  is  more 
magnificent,  in  bloom),  we  have  Azaleas, 
perhaps  next  to  the  laurel  in  beauty,  and 
then  an  enormous  choice  between  thorns, 
Viburnums,  cornels,  elderberry,  down  to 
the  bright-berried  shrubs  for  Winter  dec¬ 
oration,  than  which  perhaps  none  is  more 
brilliant  than  our  common  Winter-berry 
or  black  alder.  I  have  myself  planted 
Rosa  lucida  and  R.  blanda  in  shrubberies 
where  no  cultivated  rose  would  have 
taken  their  place,  and  where  tlieir  haws 
are  very  decorative  in  Autumn.  I  think 
many  of  your  readers  would  find  it  very 
interesting  to  start  collections  of  native 
plants,  and  no  doubt  the  variety  and 
beauty  of  those  from  which  choice  could 
be  made  would  be  a  revelation  to  most  of 
them.  I  am  now  planning  the  planting 
of  my  own  home  grounds,  which  will  need 
some  500  or  000  shrubs.  Eighty  per 
cent,  or  more  will  be  native  to  the  East¬ 
ern  United  States.  The  Arnold  Arbore¬ 
tum.  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.,  is  chiefly  re¬ 
sponsible  for  calling  attention  to  the 
beauty  and  value  of  our  native  plants, 
and  anyone  interested  in  the  subject 
should  get  their  bulletins. 
Connecticut.  eixicott  p.  curtis. 
An  Apple  Eater  Talks 
Our  folks  are  interested  in  the  Hope 
Farm  man's  baked  apples.  Our  list  is 
somewhat  different.  Fall  Pippin  does 
poorly  here  cm  this  light  soil.  We  com¬ 
mence  with  Qjblden  Sweet  in  August. 
We  find  Ilubbardston  second  to  none. 
Pared,  with  a  sugar  core  and  baked  just 
enough  they  will  melt  in  your  month, 
good  enough  for  King  Albert  of  Bel¬ 
gium.  “Every  inch  a  king."  Smokehouse 
is  almost  as  good.  Nothing  in  the  apple 
line  has  proved  a  better  paying  proposi¬ 
tion  or  more  satisfactory  for  cooking  or 
dessert.  T  wonder  that  this  variety  gets 
so  little  “honorable  mention."  I  do  not 
know  of  another  tree  of  its  kind  in  this 
vicinity.  Everyone  likes  it  as  a  table 
fruit,  regardless  of  nationality.  A  Ger¬ 
man  praised  it  highly;  a  Scotchman 
said  “It's  the  heat  apple  1  ever  ate";  an 
Englishman  bought  one-lialf  barrel  and 
after  his  folks  had  sampled  the  fruit, 
came  back  and  wanted  the  barrel  filled 
up.  The  writer's  father  was  born  up 
here  in  the  Berkshire  hills,  his  mother 
down  on  Cape  Cod.  and  lie  a  Bostonian 
by  birth,  "a  citizen  of  no  mean  city." 
So  I  guess  that  Em  a  Yankee,  but  my 
opinion  of  this  apple  as  first  class  goods 
coincides  with  that  of  my  friends  from 
over  the  sea.  Talk  about  “pink  pills  for 
pale  people" ;  there  is  more  health-giv¬ 
ing  virtue  in  the  big  red  and  yellow 
pills  grown  on  an  apple  tree  than  all  the 
drugstore  remedies.  I  don’t  mean  nib¬ 
bling  daintily  at  an  apple  once  a  day. 
but  having  them  at  meals,  sauce,  pies, 
baked,  and  eating  from  three  to  six  raw 
daily.  Plenty  of  tipples  are  better  than 
a  remedy,  they  are  an  insurance  policy 
against  digestive  troubles.  c.  A.  n 
Hampden  Co.,  Mass. 
Anticipating  Telephone  Needs 
When  a  new  subscriber  is  handed 
his  telephone,  there  is  given  over 
to  his  use  a  share  in  the  pole 
lines,  underground  conduits  and 
cables,  switchboards,  exchange 
buildings,  and  in  every  other  part 
of  the  complex  mechanism  of  the 
telephone  plant. 
the  growth  of  business  districts. 
It  must  estimate  the  number  of 
possible  telephone  users  and  their 
approximate  location  everywhere. 
The  plant  must  be  so  designed 
that  it  may  be  added  to  in  order 
to  meet  the  estimated  requirements 
of  five,  ten  and  even  twenty  years. 
And  these  additions  must  be  ready 
in  advance  of  the  demand  for 
them — as  far  in  advance  as  it  is 
economical  to  make  them. 
It  is  obvious  that  this  equipment 
could  not  be  installed  for  each  new 
connection.  It  would  mean  con¬ 
stantly  rebuilding  the  plant,  with 
enormous  expense  and  delay. 
Therefore,  practically  everything 
but  the  telephone  instrument 
must  be  in  place  at  the  time  service 
is  demanded. 
Thus,  by  constantly  planning  for 
the  future  and  making  expenditures 
for  far-ahead  requirements  when 
they  can  be  most  advantageously 
made,  the  Bell  System  conserves 
the  economic  interest  of  the  whole 
country  while  furnishing  a  tele¬ 
phone  service  which  in  its  per¬ 
fection  is  the  model  for  all  tfie 
world. 
Consider  what  this  involves.  The 
telephone  company  must  forecast 
the  needs  of  the  public.  It  must 
calculate  increases  in  population 
in  city  and  country.  It  must  figure 
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