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THE IRUIRAE IN EW-YORKER 
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Transplanting Cedars. 
D URING the latter part of November, 
between light frosts, I dug up 20 ce¬ 
dar trees from their original places 
on the north side of Long Island, and 
planted them as a wind-break on my 
place on the south side. The trees aver¬ 
age six to 10 feet, and have very little 
root. The roots seem to be all on the 
surface. I planted them deeply the same 
day dug, but was not able to carry any 
earth with the roots on account of the 
dry season. I did the same with a quan¬ 
tity of laurel taken from the hillsides. 
Will these trees and shrubs live? 
Brightwaters, N. Y. c. H. N. 
Cedars and laurel of medium or large 
size are quite difficult to remove from 
(he woods to the home grounds with any 
degree of success. The chances are many 
to one against their growing. Small 
seedlings of these two species of plants 
may be transplanted from the wild state 
quite successfully; after they have been 
a year or longer under cultivation they 
may be moved anywhere with little risk. 
Most forest trees make very few fibrous 
roots in their natural habitat, particu¬ 
larly evergreens. When it is contem¬ 
plated removing medium or large-sized 
forest trees to the home grounds they 
should have at least one season’s advance 
preparation before removal. This con¬ 
sists of digging a narrow trench around 
the tree in the Spring, two feet or more 
in diameter (according to the size of the 
tree) and deep enough to sever all the 
roots running in a horizontal direction, 
after which the trench is filled in with 
loam, and the trees allowed to remain 
without further disturbance until the fol¬ 
lowing Fall or Spring. In the meantime 
by reason of the cutting of the roots, nu¬ 
merous fibers will be pushed out through 
the ball of earth in every direction, when 
in most cases the trees may be removed 
with an adhering ball of earth, which 
will greatly enhance the tree’s chance of 
living. Very slow-growing sorts some¬ 
times require two years advance prepara¬ 
tion before they can be safely moved. It 
is doubtful if any of the cedars or Kal- 
mias you planted last Fall on your place, 
will survive beyond midsummer of this 
year. K. 
till sunrise showering the house and 
plants. By 5 o’clock A. M. the thermom¬ 
eter said 25 above zero and icicles were 
hanging all around, and on the plants. 
But I stood to my hose and kept the 
spray going, washing off the icicles as 
fast as they formed, until, with the ris¬ 
ing sun the temperature went up, and 
when it said 40 degrees above zero I 
stopped the water, and soon had 50. The 
whole greenhouse was flooded, of course, 
and this flood of water, parting with its 
latent heat, helped in the protection, and 
the result was that there was not a plant 
hurt, and hardly a bloom dropped. 
Facts of experience are worth all the 
theories you can form about evaporation. 
The next morning I received a box by ex¬ 
press containing 500 geranium plants 
from New York. On opening the box I 
found the whole contents frozen in a 
block, and notified the shipper at once, 
who made a claim on the express com¬ 
pany. But I turned that mass of plants 
into a half hogshead of cold water in a 
cold cellar, and thawed them out, and 
potted them, sad looking little geraniums 
they were, too. Most of the large leaves 
fell off. but the majority of them recov¬ 
ered, and when I reported to my old 
friend Peter Henderson that I would 
probably save most of the plants, he said 
it was due to my work, and the express 
company should still pay for the freez¬ 
ing, and he sent me another 500. Now 
in all my long experience in gardening 
I have found nothing so valuable to keep 
off frost and to save frosted plants as 
cold water. Water in freezing must part 
with heat and this Is a protection to 
plants that are kept sprayed, and the 
evaporation is not what we care about, 
it is the getting of the latent heat from 
the water. w. F. massey. 
John had induced his little sister to 
play war with him, but he always in¬ 
sisted on her being the “dead” soldier. 
This did not offer much excitement for 
Ruth, so she finally refused to play un¬ 
less he let her do the “charging” once in 
a while. He said : “Well, you can’t, so 
there—’n you might as well be a dead 
soldier as a girl, anyway!”—Chicago 
Tribune. 
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A famous physician was recently asked why farmers lived 
longer than city men. In reply he said, “Of course an outdoor 
life is healthful, but I believe one of the reasons why farmers 
are long-lived and healthy is because they keep their feet dry." 
The surest and cheapest way to keep your feet dry is to wear 
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rubber, selected duck, reinforced at every seam and joint and 
lined with soft, warm wool. 
They cost less because they last longer. 
All the better dealers sell Elephant Head Rubber Boots. 
You can depend on anything you buy in the stores that have them. 
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Spraying to Prevent Frost Damage. 
Y OTi say you would like to hear from 
those who have tried to prevent frost 
from touching plants by sprinkling. 
M hy not apply your own formula you 
gave us some time ago? “Ask the plants?” 
\ ou have a hose or a watering pot. Get 
busy when the temperature gets down to 
2.0 degrees. I think Prof. Massey forgot, 
when he made the suggestion on page 
l‘>44, the effect that the evaporation of 
the water would have. I found that the 
more I sprinkled the harder it froze. I 
really think it would freeze the plants 
if you sprinkled them with a fine spray 
when the temperature in the air was 34 
or 35 degrees. When I was a boy a 
man told me that 33 degrees was the 
freezing point. lie had seen it himself. 
You and I have seen it freeze a moist 
surface of the ground when the air was 
stirring and a correct thermometer show¬ 
ing 35 degrees. Evaporation is the an¬ 
swer. The man who told me water froze 
at 33 degrees was a good observer. The air 
was 33 but the surface of the water was 
32 degrees due to evaporation. In the 
greenhouse or even outdoors you can help 
tender plants a little by sprinkling them 
with water when they have been frozen 
and the temperature of the air is rising. 
It seems that the frost drives the sap 
down the plant. The rays of the rising 
sun demand moisture from the plant. 
The sap is slow in coming back, and 
until it does a little aid from outside the 
plant may save it. That is the only 
good I have been able to discover from 
use of water on frozen plants. 
Massachusetts. gustave olsox. 
There is not the slightest doubt that 
spraying with water through a frosty 
night will save plants and plants, too, of 
a tender nature even when the water 
freezes. Many years ago I had a large 
greenhouse heated by the old-fashioned 
brick furnace and flue. In ordinary 
weather of the climate the house was 
sufficiently heated. But one night we 
had about the worst northwest wind of 
my experience with a very low temper¬ 
ature, in fact a little below zero. It soon 
became evident that with the hardest 
firing, the further end of the house would 
freeze. There was at that end a collec¬ 
tion of pelargoniums, Fuchsia speciosa 
(a Winter bloomer) and Cyclamen, all 
in full bloom. With the furnace door and 
door frame red hot, and the heat actually 
lifting the bricks of the arch, the mer¬ 
cury kept dropping in the further end of 
the house, and when it got down to about 
3G there I turned on the hose with a 
sprinkler, and stood there from midnight 
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