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that no feeders or lateral fibres may be left of 

 sufficient length to become doubled or twisted in 

 the planting. The tap-root should not be cut 

 short, but only just tipped, a length of nine inches 

 being sufficient, the laterals or feeders being about 

 four inches in length. Should there be two tap- 

 roots, it will probably be as well to amputate one 

 of them. 



It has been observed, that stumps cannot be 

 used with success in districts where a long period 

 of drought may be expected to succeed the wet 

 season as is the case in some parts of Southern 

 India. 



If small nursery plants still furnished with leaves, 

 &c., be selected for use in preference to stumps, 

 more delicate treatment still will be necessary. 

 They should be taken out of the nursery-beds on a 

 dark, rainy day, the surrounding earth being in the 

 first instance gently prized up and loosened with a 

 crowbar, and each plant carefully removed with as 

 much soil as can be got to adhere to the roots. 

 This should then be pressed gently round them 

 between the hands, the plants being then put in 

 baskets and carried off for distribution, one being 

 laid gently down at each pit. In very wet climates, 

 where a long continuance of uninterruptedly rainy 

 weather can with certainty be calculated on, all 

 this care to remove the plants, " with ball " as it is 



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