An exchange remarks that trees purchased in autumn, and for localities where it would be doubtful if they lived during the winter if planted, can be safely kept in a cool cellar or a damp room, in which the temperature is but little below the freezing point at all during the winter; freezing will not injure evergreens in this situation, if they are excluded from free circulation of the air, and do not rapidly thaw again.

The small sized trees should be packed in a manner similar to ours for shipping in boxes, only with tops more open and exposed to the air, and the roots more fully enveloped in earth and moss, or straw, and kept quite wet all winter. We would advise laying them in a horizontal position, with sticks among them in such a way that the foliage will not pack and mat down and become wet and rotten, as it will rot in such a condition. Fully and well cover all the roots with earth and moss, and keep them well wet during the winter, taking care not to wet the tops.

The tops should be damp, neither wet nor exposed to a free circulation of air. A free circulation of air while in this condition will dry out the moisture in the branches and coagulate the resin, which will prevent the flow of sap in the spring; to secure this condition, the tops should be covered with straw, and occasionally dampened a little. As freezing does not injure them, rapid thawing - after freezing - does the harm. They can be safely kept out of the cellar, if carefully protected so that the winds and dry air will not come in contact with the foliage, and yet so free to damp air, so as not to mould and rot, and the roots well covered in soil and moss, and supplied with an abundance of water.

Trees in this manner winter perfectly; and if all the conditions have been strictly complied with, the roots will be found to have formed the granulations necessary to the productions of new spongioles, and the trees, if planted in a wet time, will start into immediate growth.

If trees arrive frozen, they should be thus buried without exposure or thawing.