TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



health, than an animal raised upon the rich pastures of our Western 

 country would have, transplanted to some of the bleak, barren hills, 

 of New England. Food for the plant is, therefore, requisite, and 

 this should be prepared in a well, and previously cultivated and en- 

 riched soil, and not expected to be supplied in a raw state by appli- 

 cation of animal manures immediately to the roots. Prof. Lindley 

 says, " that a small quantity of super-phosphate of lime, as it is called, 

 that is to say, a mixture of oil of vitriol and burnt bones, mixed with 

 dry mould, and thrown in around the roots of a newly-transplanted 

 tree, will generally aid in the formation of root fibres, and consequently 

 assist very much in establishing the plant in its new situation ; or, if 

 scattered over the soil next the roots, the rains will distribute it to the 

 places where most required." 



How to Plant. Having prepared the place and the soil, we next 



proceed to plant the tree. 

 Supposing that the roots, 

 in removing, have been 

 carefully preserved, our 

 tree will present, when 

 placed in the hole pre- 

 pared for it, the appear- 

 ance represented in our 

 figure 17, the upper root 

 being about four inches 

 lower than the level of 

 the surrounding soil. If 

 the roots are broken, prune, 

 by a cut from the under 

 side of each end. Now, 

 one man should scatter 

 in carefully the fine earth, 

 while another holds the 

 body of the tree with one hand, and with the other carefully presses 

 the earth around and beneath every root, taking care to keep the 

 small roots and fibres, each in its place, lifting them as the work pro- 

 gresses to a nearly horizontal position. Leave the earth, if the plant- 

 ing be done in Spring, level around the tree, and with the surround- 

 ing surface ; if planted in the Fall, earth up a little mound around the 

 stem-end, and over the entire circle of roots, to be drawn away again 

 in the Spring. Avoid treading or other pressure around the tree, 

 other than that made by the hand, in firmly placing the earth around 

 the roots in the process. 



Time to Plant. With nearly all trees and all locations, Fall is 

 the best time to transplant ; new granulations have to **) made, ere 

 the roots broken by removal can again supply themselves, or the 

 plant, with food. This process, if trees are removed in Fall, will 



