KURSERIES. 



Ill 



shall have plants with firm fibre and hardy constitu- 

 tion, with thick juicy bark, thick stem at the surface of 

 ground, and numerous feeders all the way down the 

 stem. Roots are most easily extricated from light 

 soil, and with least fracture. They are large in pro- 

 portion to stem in dry soil and climate, and when 

 they are situated near the surface of the ground. — 

 A healthy growing plant, of firm fibre, large root, 

 and sturdy short stem of one leader and numerous 

 feeders, is the great desideratum : a large root is the 

 more desirable, as a considerable part of it is gene- 

 rally broken off in transplanting, rendering it dis- 

 proportioned to the top, which, in consequence, either 

 languishes, or receives deterring cropping. 



We consider, that a tree grows more luxuri- 

 antly, acquires larger size, and is much longer of 

 reaching senility, when it is furnished with several 

 large roots, say one or two to each of the cardinal 

 points, extending horizontally out with bold leaders, 

 than when numerous small rootlets diverge in all 

 directions from the bulb, as is the case in some kinds 

 when much fracture of root takes place from frequent 

 removals, or, when the nursery is of moist or mossy 

 soil, the plants being removed when of considerable 

 size. We have cut down old stunted hard wood 

 trees having extremely numerous crowded roots, all 



