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6 NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
LATE SUMMER THE BEST TIME TO MOVE A TREE OR 
EVERGREEN. 
Almost every one thinks that the roots extending beyond a certain distance 
proper time to move a tree is in the 
spring and the rest of the community ad- 
vocates fall transplanting. It may be 
surprising to my readers to know that as 
far as evergreens are concerned they are 
both wrong. 
The best time to move an evergreen 
tree is August. Of course it may live if 
moved at ‘any time of the year. But 
that is equally true of any tree or plant. 
If you are careful not to disturb the roots 
it is remotely possible to move a forty- 
foot apple tree in full bloom, or with the 
fruit hanging on it, but not one man In 
a million has either the money or the 
knowledge to carry out such an oper- 
ation. It would mean a special railroad 
track, several derricks and a small army 
of men. 
The needle leaved evergreens—which 
include pines, cedar, spruce, balsam, 
arbor vitae, hemlock and so on—have 
recently become extremely popular on 
country and suburban places, because 
they are not only immediately decorative 
and take away the barren look from a 
new place, but they are beautiful the 
year round and never shed their leaves 
to such an extent as to litter up a yard as 
in the case of deciduous trees. Nursery- 
men have recently gone extensively into 
the culture of evergreens. 
Beautiful specimens, showing a wide 
range of colors in their foliage, from the 
Colorado blue spruce to the golden 
leaved retinosporas, may be obtained 
now at a comparatively low cost. One 
or two of these trees properly located in 
your front yard will change the entire 
aspect of the place. 
The man who attempts to move a 
native evergreen tree—that is, a wild tree 
that grows in his neighborhood—is _al- 
most sure to fail, because, in the first 
place, he does it at the wrong time of 
year, and, second, because he does it on 
the impulse of the moment and neglects 
to take the precautions that are taken in 
a nursery. A native tree to be moved 
successfully should be root pruned about 
a year ahead of the time it is to be 
moved; that is, it should have a trench 
dug around it, by means of which all 
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from the tree will be cut off. After the 
tree has had a chance to recover, the 
roots branch profusely. ‘The result is a 
fibrous mass of roots which will enable 
one to move considerable earth with the 
tree and thus transplant it safely. 
As a rule it is hardly worth while to 
attempt to move native evergreens. 
With the exception of cedars they are 
seldom shapely and their chances of liv- 
ing are extremely small. 
The nurseryman knows how to pack 
and ship an evergreen. It is his busi- 
ness to know it. He has only specimen 
trees to sell, which he has transplanted 
three or four times to make the roots 
form a compact ball. As soon as he 
receives your order he will dig up the 
tree and carefully pack the root ball in 
burlaps, so that unless the tree is a long 
time in transit it will really hardly know 
that it has been moved, and its chances 
of living are about ninety per cent if you 
give it reasonable after care. 
The business of setting out the tree 
devolves on you, and it is a_ particular 
job. First dig a hole large enough to 
admit the roots without crowding. Care- 
fully separate the good soil that you find 
on top from the sand and clay that may 
form the subsoil on your place. Re- 
move the burlap bagging from the tree— 
which by the way, should lie unopened 
until ready to plant in the ground. Dig 
the hole carefully, and allow plenty room 
for the roots to fit and have the hole 
large enough so that the new shoots of 
the roots may make its way through the 
soil easily. 
Don’t forget a tree once it Is set out. 
Constant watering through the fall 
months enables the roots to become es- 
tablished before winter. Mulch with 
coarse litter in the late fall. . 
After all your trouble and expense it 
is a shame to have an evergreen damaged 
in its youth, for it does not make a_suc- 
cessful recovery. Cattle are possessed 
to hook and tear at an evergreen if they 
geta chance. See that the yard is prop- 
erly fenced to prevent incursions from 
your own or your neighbor’s live stock. 
— Exchange. 
eV CT OME NS 
We offer a stock of over 35,000 assorted Evergreens from 2 to 8 feet in height, consisting of 
Norway Spruce, Coerulea Spruce, White Spruce, Colorado Spruce both blue and green, Scotch 
Pine, Austrian Pine, White Pine, Mugho Pine, Cephalonica Fir, Nordmans Fir, Douglass Fir, Bal- 
sam Fir, American Arbor Vitae, etc. 
will lift with a ball of earth at the roots. 
All have been several times transplanted and most of them 
We also have a choice lot of imported Evergreen Speci- 
mens and 10,000 well rooted Dwarf Box for border and edging purposes and make very reasonable 
prices for this season’s planting. 
Southworth Bros., 
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