Age, Size, Roots. 



tilings ; and when the tree begins to grow again, new roots 

 come out of those which you leave when you transplant it. 

 On the following page, I have given a Drav»ing of a young 

 Apple Tree, having two shoots, and about to be planted 

 again, after having been taken up. Fig. 1. represents the 

 tree with all its roots and fibres, just as it came out of the 

 ground. Fig. 2. represents the tree with its roots shortened. 

 You will perceive, that there are no little hairy fibres left, 

 and that the roots are shortened in proportion to their size. 

 The growth will begin by new roots starting out of these 

 shortened ones; and, these new roots will send out fresh 

 fibres. This tree is pruned above, as well as below, but of 

 that I shall speak more by and by. 



72. Great care must be taken not to tear or bruise the 

 parts of the roots which are left 3 and they must always be 

 cut with a knife that is very sharp, and that leaves nothing 

 like a tear or any thing rough in the bark of the root, at the 

 point where you cut it off. It is a good way, and a very 

 good way, to prune the roots of all your trees, before you 

 lay them by the heels ; because, they are then ready at any 

 moment, when your plantation ground may be fit, and when 

 the weather may serve for the work of planting. The danger 

 is also less of mould; because it is the fibres that mould most, 

 by intercepting the earth, and preventing it from touching 

 every part. This work of root-pruning may, too, be done 

 under cover, in wet weather, which will get every thing 

 forward against the fine weather come ; for the act of plant- 

 ing does not require more time^ and not more care, than 

 the act of pruning the roots, 



73. If the tree, in the Plate just mentioned, were to be 

 planted with all its roots and fibres, just as it came out of 

 the ground, the fibres would all die, a great part of the 



