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living at Montclair, N. J., he transplanted a number of elm 

 trees from the forest to his land. He pruned away nearly all 

 the roots and all the top except a straight pole about eight 

 feet high. These trees are living to-day, and are fine models 

 of vigor and beauty. 



C. W. Campbell says in the Florida Dispatch and Fruit 

 Grower of December 31, 1891: ''For a month during our 

 dryest weather I had been transplanting orange trees, and 

 will here say that I followed the plan of cutting the roots 

 short and cutting back the top so severely as to leave but 

 little of it. As a result, I have never had so good success. 

 Out of five hundred trees, I will not lose one, though I never 

 planted when it seemed so unfavorable as last October. In 

 'February, 1886, to save as much top as possible, I dug the 

 roots as long as I could possibly get them, and out of five 

 hundred I don't believe there are fifty living to-day, and they 

 have never made a good growth." 



J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, Conn., writes me thus : 

 "You will recollect talking with me at the Pomological Meet- 

 ing in Washington last September in regard to root-pruning 

 of peach trees at time of planting. Perhaps it will interest 

 you to know that in planting an orchard of more than one 

 hundred thousand trees at Fort Valley, Ga., the past winter, 

 we root-pruned the whole of them ; and now our orchard 

 superintendent reports that they are making a wonderful new 

 growth, and so far, not a missing tree can be found in the 

 whole hundred thousand." 



M. B. Sturgus, of Hanover, Jefferson County, Ind. 

 (southern part, in Ohio Valley), tells me that he planted an 

 orchard of peach trees, and the roots of a large part of the 

 trees were so poor and mutilated that he cut them back 

 severely. After a year's growth, the root-pruned, to a tree, 

 were much finer than those not root-pruned. 



I have heard of other smaller tests that resulted the same 

 as those cited above. It is needless, however, to multiply 

 instances where root-pruning at the time of transplanting has 

 been successfully tried. The best and most conclusive 

 evidence is that resulting from a personal trial, and that at 



