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There are some important advantages aris- 

 ing from this practice. 



1. Root-pruned dwarfs will do well in the 

 poorest land, provided they have a few bush- 

 els of good earth under and around them. 



2. They may be transplanted as safely and 

 almost as easily as a geranium may be re- 

 potted. 



Trees dwarfed by grafting, [see Chap. II. , 

 Sec. 2d,] may be rendered still more diminu- 

 tive, by this practice ; but caution is necessary, 

 for it is easy to overdo this work, and thus 

 to enfeeble and finally destroy what we in- 

 tended to improve. 



Any fruit tree, in a languishing condition, 

 by a combined application of root-pruning 

 with a somewhat severe heading-in of the top, 

 may be wonderfully renewed in health and 

 vigor. 



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