CHAPTER V 
PLANTING 
THE actual task of planting may profitably 
engage careful attention, for there is a good 
deal more in it than just making a hole and sticking 
the roots of a plant in it. Some things seem 
capable of growing if 
they are only thrown on 
the ground with a spade- 
ful of soil over them, but 
that is not the right way 
to treat plants from 
which we want first-class 
results. One method 
which is commonly prac- 
tised but may be con- 
demned without qualifi- 
cation is that of pressing 
the roots of a big plant into the smallest possible com- 
pass and cramming them into a hole of inadequate size. 
Only the outer fringe of such a congested mass of 
roots will come into direct contact with fresh soil, 
and consequently half of those in the centre will 
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An Example of Bad Planting, 
WITH Roots cramped in too 
small a hole. 
