The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . foliayp. Then we traceThe freckled fiower upon the fiinty vase;These all increase, till, in unnoted years,The stony tower as grey with age appears,With coats of vegetation thinly spreadCoat above coat, the living on the then dissolve to dust, and make a wayFor bolder foliaiie, nursed by their lonp indiiring fi^rns in time will ailDie, and (l( pose ibeir dust upon the the win:,d seed may rest—till many a flowerShows Floras triumph oer the falling tower. Crabbe. To stop the effusion of blood, apply cob-webs, and bind
The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . foliayp. Then we traceThe freckled fiower upon the fiinty vase;These all increase, till, in unnoted years,The stony tower as grey with age appears,With coats of vegetation thinly spreadCoat above coat, the living on the then dissolve to dust, and make a wayFor bolder foliaiie, nursed by their lonp indiiring fi^rns in time will ailDie, and (l( pose ibeir dust upon the the win:,d seed may rest—till many a flowerShows Floras triumph oer the falling tower. Crabbe. To stop the effusion of blood, apply cob-webs, and bind them on the wound. No. 12. Transplanting Trees. 377. TRANSPLANTING Jessies gleanings. I HAVE adopted a method of transplanting trees, which I consider more generally to bedepended upon, and much cheaper, than that invented by Sir H. Stevart. On an experimentupon a large scale, and under many disadvantages, I have not lost a single tree out of manyhundreds, some of which were of large size, and showing their blossom at the time of theirremoval. The plan I adopted was as follows. In the first place, the earth must be excava-ted at some distance from the tree, leaving all the principal fibres and the earth adhering tothem, in a compact ball, undermining it as much as possible, and taking care not to shakeor injure the ball by twisting the stem of the tree, or using it as a lever to loosen the tap-roots; when this has been done, and a corresponding hole made at the place to which thetree is intended to be removed, the following method of taking it up and conveying it, is tobe used. Two pieces of iron must be previously formed, of
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