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stood, in what part it bore the southern heat, what 
sides it turned to the Northern Pole, they may restore 
it to the same position. Of such benefit is custom 
to trees of tender years.” For the gratification of 
an older school of classical scholars we will textually 
quote the original : 
Quin etiam cceli regionem in cortice signant ; 
Ut, quo queque modo steterit, qua parte calores 
Austrinos tulerit, que terga obverterit axi, 
Restituant : adeo in teneris consuescere multum est, 
The lesson to be learnt seems to be that the shortened 
roots become so by inclemency of aspect, that the 
lengthier roots on the other side of the uplifted plant 
have become so on account of their attitude towards 
a more genial aspect, and that if you reversed the 
positions in the process of transplanting, the shorter 
roots would take a weary length of misspent time 
in developing and throwing out their lateral roots, 
while the longer roots would be retarded or gradu- 
ally grow less, and so Q.E.D., as Euclid says, time 
would be wasted and but dilatory results accom- 
plished. 
Apropos of this care observed in replanting, I 
should like to quote from an extract that appeared 
in the Journal of Forestry, vol. i. 1877-8, p. 489, on 
the planting of trees at Stanage Park, Radnorshire, 
at the end of the eighteenth and the béginning of the 
nineteenth century, written by the owner, my relative 
and predecessor, Charles Rogers. 
“Tn planting single trees I have followed dhe 
Dutch method of giving them precisely the same 
situation, with regard to the points of the compass, 
as that in which they stood before they were moved ; 
and I find that the roots shoot, and the trees recover 
themselves much sooner in this way, than when 
transplanted without consideration.” The Dutch, 
