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forms a very graceful tree, with drooping, 
silvery-green branohlets, and appears equally 
indifferent to the extremes of heat and cold. 
So fur os tv.- have been able to judge, it is 
not affected by any particular soil or situa¬ 
tion, but succeeds well wherever pluced, So 
many of the newer evergreens have been 
injured of late years that our horticulturists 
have been about ready to give up the whole 
family in despair, as too fickle for this cli¬ 
mate ; but we think a fair test with this 
“ Rural Life’’ chap of yours, dear Rurat. 
has every now and then a train of spin, 
thought in him that, as he rubs it upou u: 
stupid outsiders, may help us to learn. 
A. Thorn. 
APPARATUS FDR TRANSPLANTING 
TREES. 
AMSDEN’S JUNE PEACH 
ARBORICULTURAL NOTES. 
-d Sett' Evergreen, —Josiah Hoopes says 
in the New York Tribune. :-It is always a 
pleasure to record an addition to our list of 1 
In order to reconstruct the Bois de Bou¬ 
logne, the great pleasure-ground of Paris, 
which, during the late war, suffered almost 
total demolition at the hands of the contend¬ 
ing forces, it has been necessary to trans¬ 
plant a large number of trees to replace 
those cut down. This work being found 
very costly, ns well as difficult to perform 
with existing means, a less expensive method 
has been devised for its accomplishment, 
which consists in the use of wagons espe¬ 
cially built for transporting the trees bodily 
from place to place. 
Oar illustrations show two forms of the 
apparatus, figures 1 and 2 giving different 
views of the small one-horse vehicle, and 
figure 3 of the largest machine, requiring the 
power of several horses. The former is con¬ 
structed of wood and the latter of iron. 
The mode of operation consists in first dig¬ 
ging an annular trench around the tree, so 
as to leave sufficient earth about the roots of 
the latter. As the excavation progresses 
downward, the exterior or the clod is en¬ 
veloped in branches, or with ban-el staves I 
encircled by iron hcops held by binding 
screws. The tree is sustained by guys from 
lulling. When a sufficient depth is reached, 
the earth under the tree is cut away and 
planks shoved beneath. 
Timbers are next laid on the surface to 
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Figure 2. 
chai ruing plant will assure them that one, 
at least, will prove desirable. 
Tropical Vegetal ion. —A Panama paper 
cives a striking illustration of the vigor and 
rapidity of vegetation in the. tropics, by re- 
fei i ing to the bushes and trees growing in 
the ruins of the burnt Aspinwall Hotel at 
1 auuma. Tt |g scarcely more lliautvvo years 
since this conflagration occurred, and yet 
there are now growing within the wails trees 
at least thirty feet in bight. 
POMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
placed directly over the hole, and sur- 
munding the trunk. Chains are then ear¬ 
ned down from the two windlasses ami 1ml 
under the planks beneath the roots. The 
windlasses being turned, the tree, roots, and 
clo f are bodily up between the wheels 
and there remain suspended wliilethe wagon 
ls ,Jra £ged off to the point at which the tree 
t . be placed, Then, a hole being dug 
, its , interior well watered, the tree is 
lowered in and the earth packed around, 
iu- completing the operation. Tim smaller 
vclncie is used for moderate-sized trees, but 
with the larger one and its more powerful 
machinery trees of considerable magnitude 
it is stated, may be readily transported. 
really hardy new plants, and especially so 
when they are very beautiful and desirable 
in all respects. We now urge the claims of 
a new evergreen from Japan, which as yet 
has no common name, but which is called by 
botanists Retiniapora obtusu. For the past 
live years, two of which have been mure 
trying to our hardy plants than any within 
the recollection of our oldest horticulturists, 
this lovely tres lias succeeded equally as well 
as the Norway spruce. It grows rapidly and 
covering them with hay. These heaps re¬ 
main untouched till December, the slight 
moisture of the earth, and the few inches of 
I hay preventing any injury to the apples, 
even during sharp freezes. They ure then 
assorted and packed in barrels which, after 
heading up, are placed in a cold cellar which 
is kept at a temperature of about 32% and if 
it should happen to be a few degrees lower 
for a short time, the protection of the bar¬ 
rels will prevent any injury. They come out 
sound in spring. 
Sigler’* Round Apple, —A correspondent 
of the Country Gentleman, I note, asks if 
there is such an apple cultivated as “Sigler’s 
Pound.” To this, I take it, the capable Hor¬ 
ticultural Editor of that journal replies by 
saving No, and giving Downing’s Sigler’s 
Red, which is unlike one I have had sent me 
as Sigler’s Pound. The Pound, as 1 have had 
it, has been of two sorts—one the Twenty- 
Onnee Pippin and one the old Caboshoa.—p. 
R. K, 
Qanargua Raspberry. —Mr. J. B. Jones 
writes us that he saw two acres of this fnlit 
-July 10, planted last season, “ That has now 
fully two-thirds of a full crop, and will yield 
nearly one quart to the plant. It is one pick¬ 
ing earlier than the Thornless, and therefore 
the earliest berry iu the market—red, firm, 
productive, a good, strong grower, good! 
IRUIT SHRUBS AS ORNAMENTAL 
PLANTS. 
Fig. 8-APPARATUS FOR TRANSPLANTING TREES 
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