Planting and Transplanting 



CHAPTER v. 



PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING. 



WHEN the ground has been got ready for the reception 

 of plants in accordance with the suggestions made in 

 chapter 3, the next operation is the planting of the 

 trees and shrubs according to the plan which it has been strongly 

 advised should be carefully prepared in full detail before the 

 actual work of planting is begun. 



It will be remembered that if the place is large, the ground 

 should have been plowed, and the subsoil plowed, cross-plowed 

 and harrowed, or, if the place is too small for plowing, that the 

 ground should have been trenched and then raked to an even 

 surface. 



The soil then having been thoroughly cultivated and being 

 in good condition to be worked (that is, neither so wet that it 

 will stick to the spade or trowel when being dug up or to the 

 feet when treading it, nor, on the other hand, too dry and hard), 

 mild weather with a moist atmosphere must be selected for the 

 time of planting. If the air is very dry and a harsh wind blow- 

 ing, the work must be postponed until the dry spell is over, as 

 a plant transplanted under these conditions is apt to suffer. If, 

 however, the transplanting has to be done in very dry weather, 

 shading must be resorted to until the plants make fresh roots. 

 This is more necessary in the case of evergreens than of plants 

 which are without leaves, for the reason that in those plants 

 having leaves, the surface from which evaporation takes place 

 is much larger (being at least six times greater) than in similarly 

 sized plants not having leaves. 



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