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new ones must be produced before a crop of 
fruits can be obtained ; hence the usual 
practice of cutting down to within a few 
inches of the ground at the time of trans¬ 
planting. 
Where there ia likely to be any disturbance 
of the newly-planted roots by what is termed 
“ hearing out,” during the winter, a furrow 
may be thrown Up against each side of the 
row In the fall and turned down again in 
the spring. Currants, gooseberries and other 
hardy plants of like character may be treat¬ 
ed in the same manner ; but in wet soils and 
where there is little snow but severe cold 
weather during winter, even these precau¬ 
tionary measures will not in every instance 
prevent a loss. If the soil and climate will 
admit of fall planting of the various kinds of 
small fruits, it should be done, to save time, 
in spring, which is generally the busiest sea¬ 
son on the farm. In addition to this, plants 
set out in the fall and properly protected 
through the winter will usually commence 
growing much earlier than those transplant¬ 
ed in spring, owing to the fact that the new 
rootlets will usually issue from the wounds 
made during the operation, oven before the 
ground will admit of working after the 
fr.v-L -have left it. The sail also becomes 
packed closely about the roots during the 
fall rains and thaws in winter, consequently 
care and expense of producing and main¬ 
taining it. • 
Those of our readers who contemplate 
laying out new or changing their old grounds 
in favor of the picturesque style, may, we 
think, derive instruction from the study of 
such scenes as that which we present from 
the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh. 
the slightest movement in the way of new 
growth brings them in contact with materi¬ 
als necessary for its continuance. Iu the 
usual hasty manner of planting fruit trees 
aud bushes in spring, the soil ia not pressed 
about the roots as closely as it should be to 
insure safety to the plant, to say nothing of 
promoting growth, and if dry weather en¬ 
sues, more or less failures are pretty sure to 
follow. This composting the soil about the 
roots of plants at the time of setting out is a 
part of the operation, which is of far more 
im portaaco than ia generally supposed among 
those who have little experience in these 
matters. Coarse, lumpy soil placed over and 
around the roots must necessarily leave room 
for air to enter where it would be better to 
have it excluded. 
Some of tho evils at least following hasty 
transplanting in spring may bo avoided by 
fall planting, but not all of them. But at 
whatever season this operation is performed, 
it is will to have it done iu the best possible 
mtmuer, for it is quite frequently tho case 
that one (uinuto Of extra time given to the 
manipulation of the soil placed about the 
toots will save the life of the plants. 
VIEW IN THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN 
The scene illustrated below,which we copy 
from a late number of the Gardeners’ Chron¬ 
icle, is one which we commend as worthy of 
Imitation in the laying out of our parks, of 
country grounds sufficiently extensive, or, 
in epitome, of the smaller suburban resi¬ 
dences, ciimprjsiug even so small an area a3 
two acres, It will he seen that every at¬ 
tempt at geometrical arrangement is ig¬ 
nored. It Is beautiful in its irregularity—in 
its apparently unstudied groupings—as if. 
Instead of a view planned and executed by 
the skill and taste of man, one of t ho most 
beautiful of Nature’s arrangements had 
been transferred entire to this garden. 
One of tho pleasing features of this land¬ 
scape ia tin 1 1, though composed in parts of 
single specimens, in others of dense clusters 
interspersed with trees of every shape, yet 
the one seems essential to the beauty of the 
others, and it would seem that nothing^ould 
be blotted out without marring the general 
harmony. In many attompts at what has 
bceu termed Picturesque Gardening, trees 
and shiubs, though clustered, seem to have 
no connection 
with each 
PLANTING SMALL FRUITS IN AUTUMN 
With some kinds of small fruits there is 
something to be gained in setting out tho 
plants in the fall. But so much depends 
upon the climate and soil that it will scarcely 
answer to lay down general rules, expecting 
them to be equally well applicable to each 
and every locality. In very tenacious clays, 
where there is always more or less danger of 
the plants being lifted by the frosts of win¬ 
ter, we should not consider fall planting of 
raspberries, currants and similar kinds of 
small fruits a safe operation ; but In mode¬ 
rately dry soils, sucli as loamy, sandy, or 
those Composed in large part of vegetable 
mi ld, it may be done with safety, and usu¬ 
ally with mere < r less gain iu the growth the 
following season. 
With sin h biennial, stemmed plants as the 
raspberry and blackberry, the preservation 
of the canes is of no cousequenee, because 
PLANTING TREES IN OLD AGE 
The Eastern (Maine) Argus relates the 
following in¬ 
fruit, and she 
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~ that she 
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therefore 
_ p'ui.ted the 
seed?, one of 
, which sprout- 
j --—----~ t^e fruits of 
their labor. 
