THE MULBERRY TREE. 21 



TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



As the trees grow in the nursery, and become 

 crowded, they must be thinned out. This should be 

 done by transplanting them to situations where it is 

 intended they shall permanently remain. To trans- 

 plant trees, dig the holes for them six feet square, 

 dress the ground two feet round the plants, shorten 

 the tap root and press the earth on the roots as the 

 hills are filled up. 



The distances, at which the trees are to be set, 

 depend upon the kind intended to be growed. For 

 an orchard of full grown standard trees, Mr. Cobb 

 recommends the usual distance between apple trees. 

 On the subject of dwarfs, Mr. Goodrich, President of 

 the Hartford County Silk Society, and a gentleman 

 of science and experience, to whom the community 

 are largely indebted for the present encouraging 

 prospect of the silk enterprize, says : 



" I advise you to set the rows of mulberry trees, 

 at the distance of eiglitfeet; this will allow sufficient 

 space to plough between the rows with a yoke of 

 oxen, or to pass between them with a one horse 

 wagon, when the trees are considerably grown. 



" I would transplant the trees when they are one or 

 two years old, (I should perfer those which are one 

 year old,) and set them in 'the rows originally, at the 

 distance of two feet. They will grow for -two or 

 three years within two feet of each other, as well as 

 at a greater distance. You will then have more than 

 2700 mulberry trees on an acre. If your trees are 

 one year old, or seedlings, you may, if you please, 

 place them at the distance of one foot from another 

 in the rows. 



