CHAPTER VIII. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



" WHEN young trees are taken from the nursery, 

 inquiry is often made how soon they will come in- 

 to bearing ? It is a very proper question, and it 

 would be a proper answer to say : Very much ac- 

 cording to the treatment they shall get. When 

 they are set in holes cut out of a sod, just large 

 enough to receive the roots with some crowding, 

 and are then left to take care of themselves, we 

 have no right to expect them to come soon into 

 bearing, nor to bear much when they do. Neither 

 half starved cows, nor half starved trees will be 

 found profitable. In the latter case especially, 

 the interest on the purchase money is generally 

 lost for some years, and not unfrequently the pur- 

 chase too ; but we hardly ever lose a tree in good 

 condition, set in mellow ground, which is kept mel- 

 low."* 



It is obvious that if a tree could be removed with 

 all its roots, and placed in its new situation precise- 

 ly as it stood before, it would suffer no check in 



* D. Thomas, in Trans. N. Y. State Ag. Soc. Vol. I. 



