VI. PLANTING. 



ought to be exposed as little as possible to the sun and 

 wind. The taking up of a young tree ought to be per- 

 formed with the greatest possible care, especially if it 

 have stood in the place whence it is taken for more than 

 one year. And here let me stop for a minute in order to 

 re-impress upon the mind of the reader the importance 

 of the observation which I made in paragraph 206. 

 After having read that paragraph again, the reader will 

 please to observe, that all long roots must be pruned off 

 to within at most four or five inches of the stem of the 

 tree j and that, if the tree have stood too long in its 

 place before its final removal, this loss of root will ren- 

 der it absolutely necessary to cut off the upper part of 

 the tree very near to the ground j and even after that, 

 will make it very slow to re-enter upon vigorous growth. 

 If, therefore, you be not ready for the transplanting of 

 your trees, at the time when they might be transplanted, 

 rather than let them stand to get these long roots, take 

 them up in the fall of the year, give the roots and heads 

 a pruning, and plant them again, so that you may not 

 experience the great check at the final transplanting. 



220. I return now to the taking up of the tree, which 

 ought to be done without tearing any of the roots, 

 and which is not done Without such tearing one time out of 

 twenty. You ought to dig some earth away a little dis- 

 tance all round the tree to a considerable depth, and 

 nearly let it tumble down of itself j for, if you pull, you 

 break a root j and, if that root be large, and break off 

 near the stem of the tree, the tree will have a bad root 

 and will never grow finely. Having taken the tree fairly 

 out of the ground, you begin by pruning the root. All 



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