Most of our horticultural maxims are derived from English authors and among them, that of always planting evergreens either in August or late in autumn. At both these seasons, it is nearly impossible to succeed in the temperate portions of the United States, from the dif ferent character of our climate at these seasons. The genial moisture of the English climate renders transplanting comparatively easy at all seasons, but especially in winter, while in this country, our Augusts are dry and hot, and our winters generally dry and cold. If planted in the latter part of summer, evergreens become parched in their foliage, and soon perish. If planted in autumn or early winter, the severe cold that ensues, to which the newly disturbed plant is peculiarly alive, paralyses vital action, and the tree is so much enfeebled that, when spring arrives, it survives but a short period. The only period, therefore, that remains for the successful removal of evergreens here, is the spring. When planted as early as practicable in the spring, so as to have the full benefit of the abundant rains so beneficial to vegetation at that season, they will almost immediately protrude new shoots, and regain their former vigor. Evergreens are, in their roots, much more delicate and impatient of dryness than deciduous trees; and this should be borne in mind while transplanting them. For this reason, experienced planters always: choose a wet or misty day for their removal; and, in dry weather, we would always recommend the roots to be kept watered and covered from the air by mats during transportation. When proper regard is paid to this point, and to judicious selection of the season, evergreens will not be found more difficult of removal than other trees. Another mode of transplanting large evergreens, which is very successfully practised among us, is that of removing them with frozen balls of earth in mid-winter. When skilfully performed, it is perhaps the most complete of all modes, and is so different from the common method, that the objection we have just made to winter planting does not apply to this case. The trees to be removed are selected, the situations chosen, and the holes dug, while the ground is yet open in autumn. When the ground is somewhat frozen, the operator proceeds to dig a trench around the tree at some distance, gradually undermining it, and eaving all the principal mass of roots embodied in the ball of earth. The whole ball is then left to freeze pretty thoroughly (generally till snow covers the ground), when a large sled drawn by oxen is brought as near as possible, the ball of earth containing the tree rolled upon it, and the whole is easily transported to the hole previously prepared, where it is placed in the proper position, and as soon as the weather becomes mild, the earth is properly filled in around the ball. A tree, either evergreen or deciduous, may be transplanted in this way, so as scarcely to show, at the return of growth, any ill effects from its change of location. II. Description of an English Suburban residence, CHESHUNT COTTAGE. With views and plans showing the arrangement of the house and grounds. And the mode of managing the whole premises. [The following description of an interesting suburban residence near London, with the numerous engravings illustrating it, has been kindly furnished us for this work, by J. C. Loudon, Esq. It was originally published in his "Gardener's Magazine," and affords an admirable illustration of this class of residences, showing what may be done, and how much beauty and enjoyment realized, on a comparatively limited space of ground.] CHESHUNT COTTAGE, THE RESIDENCE OF WM. HARRISON, Esq., F. L. S., ETC. "All that can render a country seat delightful, and a well furnished library in the house." (Evelyn's Memoirs, by Bray, vol, i., p. 432.) THE sides of the road from London to Cheshunt, by Stoke Newington, Edmonton, and Enfield Wash, are thickly studded with suburban houses and gardens the whole distance; but, by going straight on through the Ball's Pond Turnpike, and taking the country road leading out of Newington Green, called the Green Lanes, between the Tottenham and Edmonton road, and the Barnet Road, and threading our way through numerous interesting lanes, we may pass through very rural and umbrageous scenery, with the appearance of but few houses of any kind. Indeed, it may be mentioned as one of the most remarka ble circumstances in the state of the country in the neighborhood of London, that, while all the main roads are bordered by houses for some miles from town, so as almost to resemble streets; there are tracts which lie between the main roads, and quite near town, which have undergone little or no change in the nature of their occupation for several, and apparently many, generations; at all events, not since the days of Queen Elizabeth. The tracts of country to which we allude are in pasture or meadow, with crooked irregular hedges, numerous stiles and footpaths, and occasional houses by the roadsides; the farms characterized by large hay barns. Scenery of this kind is never seen by the citizen who goes to his country seat along the public road, in his family carriage, or in a stage-coach; and it is accordingly only known to pedestrians, and such as are not afraid of driving their horses over rough roads, or meeting wagons or hay-carts in narrow lanes. The road through the Green Lanes to Enfield is an excellent turnpike road, always in a good state, with occasional villas near Bour Farm and Palmer's Green; and near Enfield, at Forty Hill, there is a handsome church, built and endowed by Mr. Myers, opposite to his park, which is filled with large and handsome trees. Afterwards it passes the celebrated park of Theobalds, near where formerly stood a royal palace, the favorite residence of James I., and winds in the most agreeable and picturesque manner, under the shade of overhanging trees. Having made several turns, it leads to a lane with a brook which runs parallel to the road, a foot-bridge across which forms the entrance to Mr. Harrison's cottage, as exhibited in the view Fig. 1. The ground occupied by Mr. Harrison's cottage and gardens is about seven acres, exclusive of two adjoining grass fields. The grounds lie entirely on one side of the house, as shown in the plan, Fig. 13, in pp. 510, 511. The surface of the whole is flat, and nothing is seen in the horizon in any direction but distant trees. The beauties of the place, to a stranger at his first glance, appear of the quiet and melancholy kind, as shown in the Figs. 2, 3; the one looking to the right from the drawing-room window and the other to the left: but, upon a nearer examination by a person conversant with the subjects of botany and gardening, and knowing in what rural comfort consists, these views will be found to be full of intense interest, and to afford many instructive hints to the possessors of suburban villas or cottages. In building the house and laying out the grounds, Mr. Harrison was his own architect and Landscape Gardener; not only devising the general design, but furnishing working-drawings of all the details of the interior of the cottage. His reason for fixing on the present situation for the house was, the vicinity (the grounds joining) of a house and walk belonging to a relation of his late wife. The circumstance is mentioned as accounting in one so fond of a garden, for fixing on a spot which had neither tree nor shrub in it when he first inhabited it. Mr. Harrison informs us, and we record it for the use of amateurs commencing, or extending, or improving gardens, that he commenced his operations about thirty years ago, by purchasing, at a large nursery sale, large lots of evergreens, not six inches high, in beds of one hundred each, such as laurels, Portugal laurels, laurustinuses, bays, hollies, &c.; with many lots of deciduous trees, in smaller numbers, which he planted in a nursery on his own ground; and at intervals, as he from time to time extended his garden, he took out every second plant, which, with occasional particular trees and shrubs from nursery grounds, constituted a continual supply for improvement and extension. This, with the hospital ground mentioned hereafter, furnished the |