TRANSPLANTING 



my use of any kind of protection, and I have fre- 

 quently, in the years that have intervened between 

 that disastrous experience and to-day, set out 

 plants of balsam a foot in height in the hottest 

 sunshine without a sign of wilting and few plants 

 wilt more readily than these. 



Having gotten the plants safely and rightly 

 into the ground, let them alone. This is another 

 much-mooted point. Almost everyone who sets 

 out plants during the day is possessed to go put- 

 tering around at nightfall with a watering pot or 

 pail and dipper with which to water the newly set 

 plants. This is not only unnecessary but actually 

 harmful if the plants have been properly set. It 

 destroys the dust mulch and defeats the purpose 

 of all the care in planting. Instead, then, of water- 

 ing the plants, go over the rows late at night or 

 early in the morning and restore the dust mulch 

 to any part that shows wet. 



Should rain occur in a day or two after planting, 

 the ground must be gone over, as soon as it can be 

 worked, with trowel, rake, or hoe, to create a fresh 

 mulch of dust. 



There is a prevalent prejudice in favour of 

 planting just before a rain. That is, in certain con- 



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