THE ART OF THE SECOND GROWTH 



Paragraph XXXI. Transplanting in transplant- 

 ing beds. 



A. Transplanting is expensive. It must be done at a time 

 when forest ■ labor is anyhow fully occupied. Transplanting is, 

 therefore, resortei to only 



I. In case of expensive seeds or seedlings. 



II. In case of slow growing seedlings. 



III. In case of plants exposed in the open to severe dangers 

 (drought, frost, game, mice, insects, weeds). 



B. To avoid transplanting, the following alternatives are 

 used: 



I. The affspring of very cheap seeds (German Spruce) is "sin- 

 gled out," weaklings or individuals standing crowdedly being pulled 

 out by hand, or being cut out by scissors. 



II. "Root pruning" is used to enforce a compact root system 

 by cutting off, with a sharp spade, far-spreading roots, or long tap 

 roots. 



The transplanting distance is, at least, three by six inches and 

 is governed by rapidity of growth exi>ected and by the number of 

 years which the transplant is to be left in the transplanting bed. 



Transplants are set in clefts in the transplanting bed made 

 with the help of a transplanting dagger, or are placed into trenches 

 made with a hoe or spade. So as to regulate the operation, planting 

 boards are often used, along which the seedlings, whilst pressed into 

 equidistant slight grooves, are held in proper position. 



Professor Toumey's planting board, used in many American 

 nurseries, catches the seedlings to be inserted between the upper 

 and lower lid of two timbers, the lids holding the tops of the plants, 

 with the roots hanging free, as if they were pressed between the 

 covers of a book. 



Forstwart Schlag's planting board holds the seedlings between; 

 two timbers connected by iron pins. Strong rakes, with oblique 

 handles, are used to make the trench receiving the seedlings. 



Forstmeister Hacker's planting board is similar to Schlag's. 



Transplants are often left for but one year in the transplanting 

 bed, although the act of transplanting weakens the plant tempo- 

 rarily, thus checking the first year's growth in the transplanting 

 bed. Conifers should not be transplanted more than once. Hard- 

 woods are rarely transplanted for forest purposes more than once, 

 excepting the Ash, saplings of which are used for planting in. 

 inundation districts along rivers. 



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