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support the transplanting when of considerable size, 

 this, or the practice of cutting the roots, and en- 

 couraging the rooting by manuring and thickening 

 the earth around the stool, would merit attention ; 

 but as we have already stated, we consider plants 

 with these matted roots not so likely to grow to 

 large timber as those with several unchecked large 

 diverging root-leaders. 



Besides the above mentioned part of orchard, we 

 have, by this practice, removed successfully (in some 

 cases so much so as that no trace of the removal ap- 

 peared), a considerable number of trees, where they 

 were growing too close, and think it simpler, and much 

 superior to Sir Henry's, wherever the stool of the tree 

 can be turned up with a large cake of earth, as in cases 

 where the greater part of the roots run out horizontally 

 near the surface, which always occurs in flat ground, 

 when the subsoil is soaking with moisture the great- 

 er part of the season. Whatever risk there may be 

 of the tree not growing when it has been subjected 

 to all Sir Henry's formal and tedious process, assist- 

 ed by costly machinery, there is none here, provided 

 it is placed in drained trenched ground, as a con- 

 siderable number of the small fibres on which the 

 suction of moisture for supply of the leaves depends, 

 remain untouched, with this earth around them, and 



