TRANSPLANTING. 



LAYING OFF THE GEO7ND. 



HE best way to lay off the ground, after it has 

 been fully prepared and the distances decided upon, 

 is to measure along the sides and ends, setting a 

 stake at the proper distances, and then driving 

 smaU stake's, say one foot high, at all the points 

 ^ where the lines thus indicated intersect each other. 

 After the ground is staked, commence digging the 



holes — and this should be completed before the trees are removed 



from the nursery. 



SEASON FOE TEANSPLANTING. 



The proper season for transplanting a tree is any time between • 

 the falling of the leaf in autumn and the swelling of the buds in 

 spring; and, in the case of a hardy tree, 'as the apple, it probably 

 makes but little difference whether it be done before the winter or 

 after it. With other trees it is different; the less hardy ones, with 

 diminished strength, can not so easily withstand the severe frosts 

 and piercing nor'westers of that season. Hence they should be 

 transplanted only in the spring. Apples may be removed either in 

 November or April, provided it be done well, with probably about 

 equal success. CoxIe, who did a great deal of orchard planting in 

 his time, always planted in the autumn, generally about the middle 

 of November — sometimes, however, as early as October, and some- 

 times as late as December. Thomas, in his Fi^uit Culturist^ says : 

 " Where the work is well done, both are successful.-' The editor of 

 the Illustrated Annual Register^ 1855, says that planting should be 

 done at tliat season when it can be best done ; and adds — "after all, 

 the subsequent treatment of trees has more to do with their success, 

 at least twenty fold, than the season of the year for setting." 



