ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



More care must be taken in transplanting 

 trees from the woods and fields than with 

 nursery stock. In nurseries the trees are 

 frequently moved, their form carefully pre- 

 served, the roots pruned, and packing for 

 transportation reduced to a science. But a 

 tree that you have seen growing in a fence 

 corner or in a woodland, whose transplant- 

 ing you have personally superintended, will 

 be more an object of fond pride and dearer 

 to you, than the nursery-grown tree that 

 comes in a box by express. 



If possible, always have your nursery 

 stock sent by express. This is important. 

 Freight is slow, and plants and trees often 

 become so dried out by the long transit 

 that they cannot survive. Last Fall I lost 

 a number of plants sent from a Western 

 State because the orders to send by express 

 were misunderstood and the box reached 

 me as freight after being three weeks on 

 the way. The actual loss was made good, 

 but there was the annoyance and delay. 

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