44 PLANTING. 



roots of the plants thus thrown away, which induced 

 them to strike root, and were found afterwards in a 

 better state of health, making more rapid growths than 

 those which were carefully taken up and planted with 

 skill and attention. This is another proof of the power 

 and virtue which leaves possess of encouraging and 

 producing root-growth, their chief virtue consisting in 

 the moisture they retain and food they afford. 



In selecting 



HARDWOOD TREES 



for transplanting, it is desirable to take them from a 

 higher to a lower altitude, from a poorer to a richer 

 soil, from loam to clay rather than from clay to loam, 

 from an open to a stiff, from a cold soil to a warmer 

 one, and from exposure to shelter. These conditions, 

 however, apply more to the future success than to the 

 immediate growth of the plants. The form and habit 

 of the tree should be duly observed in making selec- 

 tion, and choice had of such only as are of free but 

 not luxuriant growth, having a clear fleshy bark, full 

 and well - developed buds. Of the gummy sorts of 

 trees, those should be preferred that are most gummy, 

 and others whose buds are most fully developed. It 

 is better to select those trees which have numerous 

 small branches, with stem thick at the base, and 

 gradually tapering towards the top, with branches 

 diverging from the tree horizontally, rejecting those 

 whose branches are vertically inclined. 



In selecting 



PINES 



for transplanting, choice should be made of such as 

 are of somewhat slow growth, stems straight, and uni- 



