TREES AND SHRUBS 15 



ture containing fresh cow manure and then wrapping them in 

 wet straw or trash which will keep them moist. 



Plants which grow in shallow rocky soil are rather diffi- 

 cult to dig because, in such soil, the roots spread widely, and 

 in digging it is hard to avoid cutting off the smaller rootlets 

 with the pick or spade. The moral of this is to get all the 

 roots of the plant that you can. 



Plants just transplanted must be watered immediately and 

 the soil compacted sufficiently to bring the wet soil into close 

 contact with the roots. Nor must the soil be allowed to cake 

 and sun-crack later on, else the moisture will evaporate and 

 the plants die. Practically nothing but cacti will bear trans- 

 planting into a dry soil without being irrigated at the time 

 of transplanting, and I would irrigate cacti even if it were 

 necessary to carry the water in a bucket. 



