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After the peg is placed for the location of the tree, it 

 will be found convenient, when the triangle is not used, 

 to have a board seven or eight feet long with a notch on 

 one side in the middle and a hole at each end equidistant 

 from the notch. Place the board so that the notch will 

 receive the peg, and stick a pin through each hole. Lift 

 the board, leaving the pins, and dig the hole for the 

 tree. Eeplace the board on the pins, and set the tree in 

 the notch, and it will be sure to stand where the marking 

 peg was driven. With pins enough to do this, the entire 

 orchard may be laid out before a tree is set. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 TRANSPLANTING THE QUINCE. 



No part of culture is more important than transplant- 

 ing, and, as generally practised, none is done so badly, or 

 with less regard to the principles involved. The digging 

 often robs the tree of nearly all its fibrous roots, and the 

 planting crowds what few are left into the smallest hole 

 that will hold them ; so that, between the careless digger, 

 and the thoughtless planter, the tree dies ; or, if it lives, 

 makes a feeble growth, and never affords satisfaction to 

 any one. 



How and when to transplant are the two chief points 

 on which depend success or failure. In taking up a tree 

 great care is necessary to preserve all its roots, large and 

 small. If every root and rootlet could be preserved in- 

 tact, and then well placed in the new location, there would 

 be but little check to its growth. The nearer we come 

 to this the better the prospect of success. The length 

 of the roots being reckoned equal to the hight of the 

 tree, we can tell about how far from the base of the tree 



