The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . WATEKINa TEANSPLANTED TEEES. BY THOMAS MEEHAN, GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA. T is very customary with many horticultural magazines, tosum up at the end of the season all the improvementswhich may have been made in gardening during thepreceding year. This enables us to see at a glance how}, much we have progressed, and how far we have left ourforefathers behind. Still it must have occurred to manyreaders of these summaries, that our progress must havebeen exceedingly slow if all we have been learned toavoid or improve has been noticed in
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . WATEKINa TEANSPLANTED TEEES. BY THOMAS MEEHAN, GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA. T is very customary with many horticultural magazines, tosum up at the end of the season all the improvementswhich may have been made in gardening during thepreceding year. This enables us to see at a glance how}, much we have progressed, and how far we have left ourforefathers behind. Still it must have occurred to manyreaders of these summaries, that our progress must havebeen exceedingly slow if all we have been learned toavoid or improve has been noticed in these retrospectivesketches. But the fact is, we have advanced faster thanour own journals have given us credit for. Ideas thataie reallyj sound and valuable creep about amongst gardeners like ivy over old ruins,till, once well established, no one knows when or by whom it was planted, or howthey originated. I was strongly reminded of this by reading in an old Gardeners Calendar thefollowing advice: Should dry weather prevail, apply frequent waterings to allnewly transplanted trees and
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