CHAPTER VL 



TRANSPLANTING. 



Perhaps no operation connected with fruit culture is 

 so often improperly done as transplanting or taking up 

 and setting out trees. It may seem strange to the man 

 who succeeds so well in raising farm products that he 



Tree showing length of roots. 



should need any instructions on so simple as subject a 

 transplanting trees. Yes, but the very man who takes 

 the utmost care to have his ground in a perfect condition 

 for the reception of corn or cotton seed very often crams 

 his fruit trees into the hard soil, post-like, and then ex- 

 pects them to thrive and produce large crops of fruit. If 



