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near the city of Rome. By any of these methods of carrying the 

 plants with the soil still around the roots, tin- >i>>rati<m of planting 

 may lie carried on all summer, and where the climate permits, at all 



seasons of the year. 



7V/' 1 Tr'iii."jil'tiif!n<j <>f L'ti-'j'- Trees. 



20."). Tliis is always an expensive and iineerlain ojHTation, partic- 

 ular! v with the evergreens. It is sometimes done with much >uce, B, 

 where the, live is well supplied with fibrous roots near tlie trunk, by 

 digging a trencli around the tree at some di.-tance, in the liill, and 

 allotting the soil to in-e/e into a .-olid ma>s, vhich may he moved 

 without separating it fn.in tlie routs. In such cases it is soiiietiines 

 practiced to take off tlie surface soil, if nut already rich, and to 

 spread in its place other soil of great fertility, and to dig and fill 

 the trench, as a hove descrilx-d, with rich soil, a year or two In-fore the 

 time of removal. An ahundance of fine lilir-m- roots will form in 

 such cases iu the fertile soil, which will tend to render the removal 

 more certain of su< 



2i><>. In removing large evergreens, it is be.-t done just as the veg- 

 etation is starting, by carefully following out and taking up the 

 roots as i'ar a- possible, and wrapping tin m up in wet nio-s <.r hay 

 as i'ast as .they are taken out. When they have been thus taken 

 from tlie soil, and protected from the air, the tree may he drawn to 

 its* new place, set upright, and well stayed; the covering should 

 then lie removed from the roots, which should he careful Iv spread 

 out and immediately covered \\ith line rich damp s i>il. The whole 

 should lie well watered as soon as the planting is finished, and from 

 time t > time in dry weather, until the roots have got well started. 



207. It is generally a good rule, and in light prairie soil absolutely 

 neivssarv, to press down the earth firmly, not only in the hole he- 

 fore the tree is placed, but also upon the roots after plant in;: ; but 

 in heavy clay soils this would do more harm than good. An a rule, 

 the tree should be set deeper than before. The roots should not l>e 

 cramped or doubled back, but. as wide a space should be allowed as 

 they may need, and they should l>c carefully spread before being 

 covered. 



208. In bracing trees, stron-r wire is better than cords, which are 

 apt to shrink when wet, and blocks of wood should l>e placed where 

 they are fastened to the tree, to prevent them from galling the bark. 



