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little or no evaporation from the tree in the 

 winter season, the branches can do no harm 

 any way ; and by the spring, the tree will 

 have made roots to serve them. 



29. In spring planting also, if the roots 

 have an abundance of fibres, cut nothing 

 away ; they can support all. If otherwise, 

 pruning must be resorted to, or the sap will 

 be dried out of them before the tree can 

 raise a necessary supply. 



30. The whole question is reduced to one 

 of evaporation. If there be fibres enough 

 to sustain great evaporation, the less cut the 

 better. 



VII. THE OPERATION OF TRANSPLANTING. 



31. The common mode of planting is to 

 dig out a hole, stick in a tree, and leave the 

 rest to nature. This is not care enough. A 

 tree will repay reasonable attention. 



32. In preparing a piece of ground for 

 planting, few operations are more beneficial 

 than draining. Some trees, certainly, thrive 

 in swamps ; but these are little employed, 



