. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. miles from the town of Worstadt, inthe Grand Duchy of Ilesse, and is described by Herr Seidel asbeing nearly 100 feet in height. The bole is hollow, but the remain-ing wood is sound and healthy. The oircumferecce of the stem, close NEW LIGHT ON TRANSPLANTING TREES. Permit me to ask Mr. Michie it he has well weighed all the circum-stances of the case which he records at page 361, and if his longexperience in transplanting trees generally confirms the newly-pro-pounded view, that trees transplant more successfully wit
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. miles from the town of Worstadt, inthe Grand Duchy of Ilesse, and is described by Herr Seidel asbeing nearly 100 feet in height. The bole is hollow, but the remain-ing wood is sound and healthy. The oircumferecce of the stem, close NEW LIGHT ON TRANSPLANTING TREES. Permit me to ask Mr. Michie it he has well weighed all the circum-stances of the case which he records at page 361, and if his longexperience in transplanting trees generally confirms the newly-pro-pounded view, that trees transplant more successfully without pre-vious preparation in the shape of root-pruning than with it ? Culti-vators will have a difficulty in accepting this new doctrine, for thesimple reason that it is opposed both to theory and practice. Thereis an accumulation of evidence to the contrary. It is not generallynecessary to prepare trees a year or two previous to planting in theway Mr. Michie describes, but that a previous check greatly insuresa successful removal, I have no doubt whatever. I never knew an. Elm at Schimsheim, Hesse. to the ground, is 50 ft., at 1 in. above the surface ( ft.) 44 ft.,and at 2 in. (6-56 ft) 3t ft. There are, unfortunately, no historicalparticulars extant about this tree, the date of its plantation cannot,therefore, be ascertained with accuracy. Herr Seidel estimates itsage at a little over 600 years. It must be remarked that theElm is not indigenous to that part of Germany, but isan introduction from Southern Europe. In France the Elmwas not regularly introduced until the middle of the sixteenthcentury, about the time of Francis I. Although not the tallest Elmin the Fatherland, the Schimsheim giant ranks amongst the fourgreat trees of Germany. The Luther Elm at Pfifflingheim exceeds itin height by nearly 50 ft., while its circumference is only 25 ft. atft. above the surface of the ground—the Schimsheim giantexceeding it at that height by nearly 10 feet. instance in which it
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