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the Olive. The stock and principal branches 

 are lopped, and the wounds are covered 

 with clay ; but as much of the roots as pos- 

 sible should be preserved, with the earth 

 adhering to them. When the trees are car- 

 ried to a distance , which may be done with 

 the precautions that are used for other fruit 

 trees, they should be set during several hours 

 in water, before they are replaced in the 

 ground. Mellow, fertile mould should be 

 spread upon the bottom of the holes, and 

 thrown first upon the roots , among which 

 the earth should be lightly forced, though it 

 is not useful to render it compact, nor to 

 heap it about the trunk. A copious watering 

 follows, and is repeated in the course of the 

 season , as the weather and the health of the 

 plant may require. 



The Olive, arrived at an advanced age, 

 may be transplanted in the same manner as 

 the young tree. In general, whatever vege- 

 table is to support this trial, the most im- 

 portant precept is that the earth be widely 

 broken up and minutely subdivided , so that 

 the roots may be placed in their natural po- 

 sition, and that their first efforts to extend 



