and from 2 to 3 feet 

 deep is not easily ban- 

 died, and not one out 

 of a thousand would 

 attempt such a task. 

 The usual way is to 

 "grub" them out, 

 somethinglike the tree 

 lying on the ground in 

 photo 51, and though 

 they take great pains 

 with the planting, they 

 very often have the 

 trouble of pullingthem 

 out in a condition like 

 that which the gentle- 

 man is holding up for 

 inspection. If the 



feeding-roots are not preserved there is but one 

 thing to do, and that is cut 0$~the top in the same 

 proportion that you have destroyed the rootlets. 

 Then you have injured the breathing and circulat- 

 ing power of the plant to the extent of the removal 

 of its foliage. This is followed by a cessation of 

 heart growth. Photo 55 exhibits this fact. This is 

 a section of a tree about 12 inches in diameter. 

 Death set in at the center, at the dark spot where 

 the finger is pointing. This tree, like tens of thou- 

 sands of others, had not foliage nor rootlets enough 

 to supply even the trunk with moisture. The result 

 was, the sun dried the bark up and it peeled off. 

 This usually happens on the south side, or a little 

 west of that, where the sun strikes it the hottest 

 part of the day. Some very wise gentlemen will 

 tell you, "the person who planted that tree should 

 have marked it before he took it up. This (wounded 

 part) is the side that formerly faced the north, and 

 it should have been 

 planted that way, ' ' etc. 

 All there was of it is, 

 the plant had been ren- 

 dered unable to sup- 

 ply moisture and the 

 bark was destroyed. 

 The action of hard 

 freezing after a very 

 warm spell sometimes 

 has a similar effect. In 

 the latter case the bark 

 is ruptured, torn loose; 

 in the former dried up\ 

 in both cases it is 

 killed. Now look at 

 photo 58. The person 



Photo 38. 



