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if the culture of the vine for making wine is ever brought to much 
perfection in this section of the country, it will be with native 
kinds alone. 
“ In our cities many of the finest imported vines are found to 
succeed as well as in the most favoured clime of Europe, there 
being something peculiar in the atmosphere which tends to prevent 
the mildew they are so unfortunately subject to in the country. 
“ As, however, there are some situations where the atmosphere 
is dryer and more congenial to the vine than that of others, wc 
would recommend a trial, where they are merely intended for the 
table—an occasional crop fully repaying the expense and trouble 
attendant on their cultivation.” 
OBSERVATIONS ON TRANSPLANTING TREES. 
[Selected from Jllessrs. D. ft? C. Lundreth’s Catalogue .] 
On removing trees from the nursery, care should be taken to 
prevent the roots from drying, previously to planting them, otherwise 
they may receive considerable injury. Immediately on their receipt 
the bundles should be unpacked, the roots well watered and “ laid 
in” until the ground in which they are to be planted be ready to 
receive them. By lading in is to be understood the making of a 
trench sufficiently large to admit the roots, into which they are 
placed the earth having been previously made fine, is then filled 
in around them, and a gentle watering given, in which situation 
they may remain with safety until planted. The holes in which it 
is intended to plant them, should, for an ordinary sized nursery 
tree, be from 24 to 3 feet in diameter, and about the same in depth; 
tiie earth from the bottom should be thrown aside, and its place 
filled up with good compost or black mould, (no fresh stable manure 
should be used in the compost.) The tree should be planted one 
or two inches deeper than it stood in the nursery : the roots and 
fibres being spread out horizontally, and during the process of 
filling in the earth, the tree should be shaken several times, so as 
to admit the soil between the roots, and thus fill up any cavities 
that ■might otherwise remain. The earth should then be trodden 
down and gently watered ; in a short time it will have settled, and 
any hollows that may have formed should be filled up—finishing by 
forming a basin around the trunk to receive the rain or watering 
which it may be necessary to give it, if the ensuing season should 
P r °ve dry ; to prevent the winds from loosening the earth around 
the roots, the tree should be secured to a stake by bands of straw. 
The proper season for transplanting trees in this latitude, is from 
the middle of October until the first or middle of May, during 
which time they may be safely transported ; when they are destined 
for the south, the autumn and winter months, peihaps, are prefera¬ 
ble, but when for this latitude or northerly, spring and autumn are 
equally good—evergreens are thought to succeed better when 
transplanted in the spring; much, however, depends upon the 
nature of the soil, if heavy, we would, in general, prefer the spring. 
Green House plants can be transported by water, and for short, 
distances by land, at almost any season, though the autumu, winter 
and spring months are preferable, as they mav then be closely 
packed and require no attention on the passage.' 
