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SECTION II. % 







TRANSPLANTING TREES OF MEDIUM SIZE. 



TREES of medium size, say from five to ten 

 feet high, such as are commonly taken from 

 the nursery to the fruit-garden or orchard, are 

 not generally set with sufficient care. There 

 is no more false economy than that which 

 does this work hastily and imperfectly. It 

 were much better not to attempt this labor at 

 all, until one has time and means wherewith 

 to do it well. 



1st. Preparation of a place for setting- 

 the tree. Dig a hole, avoiding the sites of old 

 trees, five to seven feet in diameter, and fif- 

 teen to twenty inches deep, placing the sods, 

 if in sward-land, in one heap, the soil in an- 

 other, and the subsoil in a third. The diam- 

 eter of the hole ought to be, at least, three 

 times that of the clump of the tree's roots. 

 Holes of this size, and, in deep, rich land, even 

 smaller ones will answer. But, if the planter 

 has patience to dig still wider, and to any 



