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Landscape Gardening 



tree to prevent it from being cut by the ropes, may occa- 

 sionally be successful. Planting with good balls of soil or a 

 little more deeply than usual will help further to stay large 

 specimens and to make them able to dispense with extra 

 support. 



Where neither of these plans is applicable, or would not be 

 effectual, stakes themselves must be employed. If the wind 

 blows most roughly from any particular quarter, the principal 



Fig. 78. Staking a Tree. 



Fig. 79. Staking a Large Tree. 



stake should be placed on that side that the plant may blow 

 away from the stake and not upon it. Some hay, matting, 

 or other soft substance should be put between the plant and 

 the stake, and also around the plant where the cord embraces 

 it. More than one or even two stakes (fig. 79) will some- 

 times be requisite for very strong or very heavy plants. But 

 if the stakes are driven down very deeply, they need not 

 stand more than one, two, or three feet above the ground, 

 which will render them less objectionable. If only one stake 

 be employed, it may by chance be able to do its work if 



