CONTENTS. 



PAET I. 



PRACTICAL PART OF TRANSPLANTING. 



Advantages of the system ........ 1 



Description of the tree-lifter 3 



Description of implements 5 



Description of water-cask . . . . ... .7 



Directions for practice . . .* . . . . . .8 



PAET II. 



THEORY OF TRANSPLANTING, OR PHYSIOLOGY OF 

 TREES IN REFERENCE TO TRANSPLANTING. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE FOOD OF TREES IS IMBIBED BY THE SURFACE OF 

 THE ROOTS. 



Proportion the head of a transplanted tree to the root . . .12 

 Prefatory remark to entering on the physiology of trees . . .12 

 The course of the Treatise will go, with the sap, from the root, 



through the wood to the leaf, and back by the bark to the root . 13 

 Except the unripe ends of roots, trees imbibe from all parts exposed 



to moisture, and transpire from all parts exposed to drought . 14 

 The food of trees is imbibed by the surface of the roots , . .14 

 Food of agastric animals imbibed by the surface . . . .14 



Seeds imbibe by the surface 14 



Cuttings imbibe by the surface .15 



The coiled brancli imbibes by the surface 17 



Radishes imbibe by the surface ....... 17 



