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stood, in what part it bore the southern heat, what 

 sides it turned to the Northern Pole, they may restore 

 it to the same position. Of such benefit is custom 

 to trees of tender years. '* For the gratification of 

 an older school of classical scholars we will textually 

 quote the original : 



Quin etiam cceli regionem in cortice signant ; 



Ut, quo quaeque modo steterit, qua parte calores 

 Austrinos tulerit, quae terga obverterit axi, 



Restituant : adeo in teneris consuescere multum est. 



The lesson to be learnt seems to be that the shortened 

 roots become so by inclemency of aspect, that the 

 lengthier roots on the other side of the uplifted plant 

 have become so on account of their attitude towards 

 a more genial aspect, and that if you reversed the 

 positions in the process of transplanting, the shorter 

 roots would take a weary length of misspent time 

 in developing and throwing out their lateral roots, 

 while the longer roots would be retarded or gradu- 

 ally grow less, and so Q.E.D., as Euclid says, time 

 would be wasted and but dilatory results accom- 

 plished. 



Apropos of this care observed in replanting, I 

 should like to quote from an extract that appeared 

 in the Journal of Forestry, vol. i. 1877-8, p. 489, on 

 the planting of trees at Stanage Park, Radnorshire, 

 at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the 

 nineteenth century, written by the owner, my relative 

 and predecessor, Charles Rogers. 



" In planting single trees I have followed the 

 Dutch method of giving them precisely the same 

 situation, with regard to the points of the compass, 

 as that in which they stood before they were moved ; 

 and I find that the roots shoot, and the trees recover 

 themselves much sooner in this way, than when 

 transplanted without consideration." The Dutch, 



