12 BEST AGE FOR TRANSPLANTING. 



Trees can be transplanted safely at any age, but in the 

 work there must be knowledge of the man who guides, 

 it, as well as workmen careful of their work among the 

 roots. The old practice of moving trees by frozen balls, 

 of roots caused by digging around in late autumn and 

 left to freeze, and be moved in mid-winter we have long 

 since abandoned, knowing that careful digging of the 

 roots and preserving them, either early in autumn or early 

 spring, the tree can be moved with better success and 

 less expense than the old ball handling. 



The writer of this has moved trees both deciduous 

 and evergreen in mid-summer, without failure. The 

 growth of the season, however, must have formed and 

 ripened with a terminal bud, and when deciduous trees 

 were removed at that time, the foliage was all removed 

 by clipping it from the petiole half way to the bud. With 

 evergreens we clip back nearly all of the present year's 

 growth, leaving one bud only upon the wood of the 

 present year. 



The best season to plant but, we may say, is very early 

 in autumn or early spring. Location and climate must, 

 however guide the rule. In the Southern States mid- 

 winter is the time. In the Southwest, March and April,, 

 not later, is the time. In the temperate, or zone of most 

 of our hardy trees, early autumn for apple, pear and 

 plum ; for peach, apricot, grape, nectarine, early spring. 

 The North, as of Minnesota, Canada, etc., had best ob- 

 tain their trees in the autumn, heel them in as we have 

 described, and not plant until the ground is a little 

 warmed in spring. 



