BAD AND GOOD PLANTING. 



143' 



beauty, when encrusted with countless myriads of frost crystals, rendering every twig a 

 picture, the like of which cannot be formed by human hand. As a matter of fact, 

 healthy trees are ornamental at all times and in all seasons when appropriate to the 

 positions in which they are planted. 



Instructions on planting, also on root and branch pruning, are recorded on 

 pages 50 to 58 (which see), the diagrammatic illustrations now given represent the 

 good and bad methods there alluded to, with the results in both cases. Fig. 71 shows 

 a young tree with its roots twisted into a narrow excavation (as if for setting a post) in 

 hard ground, and the soil packed mound-like round the stem ; branches unshortened. 



Fig. 71. Bad Plantinu and Kg. 72. Results of Faulty Practice 



Non-Peuning. (Unsatisfactoey Geowih). 



The few contracted roots, from which the mound throws off the rain, are wholly 

 inadequate for supporting the long branches and healthy growth from them, and a 

 stunted unsatisfactory tree (Fig. 72) is inevitable. 



Fig. 73 (next page) shows the broken roots cut smooth, spread out in ground that 

 has been well broken up, the soil not piled round the stem, the long branches shortened 

 at the marks, the short ones not cut back. Kesult, free root extension, and corres- 

 pondingly free growth represented in Fig 74. It should be noted that both trees are of 

 the same age, and planted at the same time ; the stunted tree being the penalty for erro- 

 neous and much too common practice, the thrifty specimen the reward for intelligent work. 



