172 Care in Planting Trees 
cutting back. Such species are, besides the various hickories 
and other nut trees just mentioned, the magnolias, beeches, 
persimmon, and nearly all conifers, which are noted for 
the paucity and delicacy of their root-hairs and the ease 
with which these dry out, while their recuperative power 
is small; hence they require the greatest care in handling 
from the nursery to the plant hole. There is, then, consid- 
erable variation among the species, calling for more or less 
care in handling them, although with properly prepared 
nursery stock only the following simple rules need to be 
observed in order to be successful. 
In setting a tree into a new position care should be had 
to make it easy for its roots to resume their function and to 
recuperate and form new rootlets as soon as possible. ‘Three 
conditions are favorable to this object: sujficiently loose soil, 
sufficient supply of water, aud close contact of sou _and_root. 
ant holes are usually dug too small. Roots are often 
_crowded into narrow space, offering a limited feeding area, 
and find themselves placed against the hard sides of a lazy 
man’s hole. Make the hole twice as large in circumference 
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as seems necessary and fu so_as to secure a com- 
fortable amount of loose soil for roots to grow inta. fi 
practicable, the hole shou? be racticable, the hole should be dug ix in the fall when th the dug 
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soil_will be comminuted hy the winte will he comminut winter fr nd_be in best 
condition for planting in the spring. 
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é Soliris not of satisfactory_consist or composition, 
supply a better soil, garden mold, or sandy loam, at least 
efiough 1 imbed the ouilying 7o¥i lets. This is especially 
‘Olien necessary in streef-iree plar necessary in street-tree planting. If there are good 
and poor layers of soil coming out of a plant hole, keep them 
separate and fill back in such a manner that the best soil 
comes to the use of the rootlets, the poor layers on top and 
near the trunk. Soil from an old pasture or from along the 
