CHAPTER IV. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



No branch of tree-cultivation is more im- 

 perfectly understood than this. Thousands 

 of fine trees die, the first season after being 

 set, in consequence of the ignorance and inex- 

 perience of those who plant them. And many 

 which survive their first summer of suffering, 

 stand for years, hesitating between life and 

 death, which, had they received an extra fif- 

 teen minutes' attention, and a shilling's worth 

 of rich soil at setting, would have repaid for 

 both, an hundred fold, in beauty of growth 

 and productiveness. 



To do this work perfectly, it would be 

 necessary to take up a tree, with every fibre 

 of its roots entire, and to set it again, so that 

 every root, rootlet, and fibrous root should oc- 

 cupy the same relative position in the ground, 

 that it originally had, being at the same 

 depth from the surface ; and the earth lying 

 as compactly around it as before. 



