APPENDIX. 



Ncles on Iransplaating trees. Reasons for frequent failures in removing large trees. 

 Directions for performing tliis operation. Selection of subjects. Preparing trees for 

 removal Transplanting evergreens. 



There is no subject on which the professional horticulturist is more 

 frequently consulted in America, than transplanting trees. And, as it 

 is an essential branch of Landscape Gardening — indeed, perhaps, the 

 most important and necessary one to be practically understood in the 

 improvement or embellishment of new country residences — we shall 

 offer a few remarks here, with the hope of rendering it a more easy 

 and successful practice in the hands of amateurs. 



The first and most important consideration in transplanting should 

 be the preservation of the roots. By this we do not mean a certain bulk 

 of the larger and more important ones only, but as far as possible all 

 the numerous' small fibres and rootlets so indispensably necessary in 

 assisting the tree to recover from the shock of removal. The coarser 

 and larger roots serve to secure the tree in its position, and convey the 

 fluids ; but it is by means of the small fibrous roots, or the delicate and 

 numerous points of these fibres called spongioles, that the food of 

 plants is imbibed, and the destruction of such is manifestly in the 

 highest degree fatal to the success of the transplanted tree. To avoid 

 this as far as practicable, we should, in removing a tree, commence at 

 such a distance as to include a circumference large enough to comprise 

 the great majority of the roots. At that distance from the trunk we 

 shall find most of the smaller roots, which should be carefully loosened 



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