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roots are destroyed in taking up, besides the cutting off 
the lower portion of the main root. 
Trees grown from cuttings will have no tap-root, and 
consequently will not require the same pruning as seed- 
lings. But they will usually have much larger and 
stronger side roots as well as branches. Both should be 
shortened, to make them more convenient for handling as 
well as planting. The general from which such trees will 
naturally take can be readily seen when young, and the 
pruning should be made in accordance with the purpose 
for which they are intended. The trees may now be plant- 
ed in nursery rows, where they can be cultivated, or where 
they are wanted for a forest. They will be better if 
planted in a nursery and well cultivated for a few years, 
say until they are four to eight feet high, and then planted 
where it is intended they should remain. The root prun- 
ing and transplanting when young, as well as the after- 
cultivation, makes the plants throw out an abundance of 
fibrous roots, which enables us to transplant them in after- 
years with the greatest ease and success. 
