CH. IV. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



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Liebig and others suppose, is clear, because the leaves 

 of the branches which were cut off at the transplanting 

 could not even supply themselves, but died before the 

 transplanting was completed and dried immediately. 

 If the leaves supplied the tree with sap, these branches 

 should have remained green. One scorched specimen 

 of them is attached to the tree. The tree stands in the 

 right-hand hedge bordering the road going down from 

 the Brookwood Lodge gate to the Dean, at the point 

 where the cross-hedge falls on the road. The smaller 

 trees on the sides of this road were planted from the 

 nursery in January, 1834. The larger beech- trees 

 among them were transplanted with " the tree-lifter " at 

 different times since that year, chiefly, like tlie tree in 

 question, in full leaf, and in the months of June, July, 

 and August.' The tree transplanted in 1846 is growing 

 Avell at the present writing (1853), and has grown well 

 in all the intervening years. 



I consider, however, that the worst time to trans- 

 plant a tree is when it is shooting : the best time, as 

 soon as possible after it has shot ; that is, as soon as it 

 has formed its winter-bud. This will differ in different 

 trees. Some are fit to transplant in June, or even in 

 May. The best months for transplanting the generality 

 of English trees with the ball of earth, are July, August, 

 and September ; for, though the upward growth has 

 then ceased, the growth in girthing, and the downward 

 growth, that is, the elongation of the roots, are in the 

 fullest tide. 



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