TRANSPLANTING. 



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earth. If this he not attended to, better not to give any water 

 at all, for the hot sun will only hake the earth the harder for your 

 watering. 



The TREES MOST SUITABLE FOR PLANTING are young, healthy 

 trees of from two to four years' growth. It is difficult to 

 transplant large trees successfully, on account of the impossihUity 

 of preserving the small fihrous roots, which are most numerous 

 towards the extremities of the large roots, in sufficient quantity 

 to support the tree. It is through the small fibrous roots that 

 the tree derives its nourishment from the ground, and, therefore, 

 the more numerous they axe the more hkely the tree is to thrive, 

 and more of these can be taken up entire in removing a small 

 tree than a large one. Young trees, that haTe been grown in 

 suitable soil and properly taken up, will be furnished with a 

 good supply of roots. The best soil in which to grow young 

 trees for transplantiQg is a good, sandy loam. They will make 

 much better and more fihrous roots in such a soil than when 

 grown in stiff clay, and are consequently more Kkely to live and 

 thrive well when transplanted. Some have entertained the 

 opinion that trees from a sandy soil wiU not thrive when 

 planted ia clay, and that trees from a 

 clay soil will not thrive when removed 

 to sandy soil. This is a great mistake. 

 A tree well suppHed with fibrous roots 

 wiU thrive in any soil, and the nurse- 

 ryman who consults the best interests 

 of his customers wiU select a rich, 

 sandy loam in which to grow his 

 young trees, experience having taught 

 us that in such a soil they throw out 

 an abujidance of small and fibrous 

 roots^In taking up a tree, it is im- 

 possible but that some of the roots 

 win be cut off, but a tree that has been 

 \weU taken up will have something of 

 the appearance shown in Kg. 20 ; fiq, 21, Fig, 22. Fio. 20. 



