'From yon blue heaven above us bent, 



The gardener Adam and his wife, 

 Smile at the claims of long descent.'* 

 — The Lady Clara Vere de Vere — Tennyson. 



CHAPTER IX 



Planting and Maintenance 



Planting 



A LTHOUGH anyone may bury the root end of 

 Jl\ a shrub or tree or any kind of vegetable 

 under a mass of earth and do it thoroughly and 

 completely, the operation of restoring to its na- 

 tive element vegetation which has been up- 

 rooted is not by any means successfully accom- 

 plished with such interment. Roots must not 

 only be covered — they must actually be re- 

 stored, as far as possible, to just the positions 

 which they originally occupied; to the same 

 depth in the soil and to the same perfect con- 

 tact with it. 



Perhaps it would express the truth more viv- 

 idly if I were to say rootlets instead of roots, for 

 it is the rootlets that are of the greatest im- 

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