510 WISCONSIN FRUIT-GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
brought to this place from the forests and marshes of the north. 
They have sold cheap, or, rather at a low price. Very few, 
however, lived, and now scarce a dozen are to be found. A 
gentleman procured several hundred such, three years ago, for 
his own planting, employed a professional gardener to set them 
out, and not more than one in fifty were alive in the autumn. 
At the same time he procured, from a neighboring nursery, 
some firs and spruces, of a large size, all of which lived and 
made a fine growth. 
Evergreens will live in sod ground, but to grow and thrive, 
they should receive good cultivation. Annual dressings of old 
manure, forked in about the roots, and frequent stirring of the 
soil, will double their growth. No tree will more gratefully 
repay this care. 
BY D. MATHEWS, OF BURLINGTON, WISCONSIN. 
With a little care, evergreens may be transplanted with as 
much certainty of success as apple trees, but the roots must not 
be long exposed to the air, and particularly to the sun. When 
I get evergreens at the nurseries, I wrap the roots in a square 
piece of coarse sheeting, w r ith r all the adhering dirt. I recol¬ 
lect of getting a lot some years ago, of Mr. Phoenix, at Dela- 
van, and served them in this way. Before I reached home, the 
ball of dirt surrounding the roots was frozen solid. They were 
set out in this condition, and all lived and grew well the first 
season, and still live. 
