HINTS ON TRANSPLANTING, &G 
The briefest hints onl-y can be given here, touching this subject. 
For more full and sufficient directions, we must refer to the popu- 
lar professional Treatises on Fruit Culture. 
1st. Condition of tiik Soil. — The condition of the soil for plant- 
ing trees is a point of the first importance. Some lands will require 
a considerable, others comparatively little previous preparation. 
Generally the condition of the soil must be such as it would be, 
adapted to grow successfully farm crops, as wheat, corn &c., and 
this in extreme seasons whether wet or dry. If the land on which 
you are to plant your trees is not in condition to bear these expos- 
ures, you can make it so by thorough underdraining, deep plowing 
and subs- iling. You may enrich it in the usual manner, — by turn- 
ing unde, clover, applying barn-yard manure, or where it can be 
obtained, vegetable mold or muck without stint. This last we 
think well adapted for producing a large amount of fibrous rootsr 
and it is through these the tree is fed. 
2d. Preparing the Tree for Planting. — The broken or muti- 
lated portions of the roots must be cut off so as to leave the ends 
smooth and sound, and the ends of all the other roots should be 
pruned. From these ends the new fibrous roots usually start. 
The stem should then be put in condition for the formation of the 
top, by removing all the limbs to the point where it is desired to 
have the top. Then cut back each remaining limb to within four to 
six buds’ distance from the pointof commencement of the previous 
year’s growth. In absence of any limbs suitable to form a top, cut 
the tree down to the requisite height, leaving the dormant buds to 
make the top. 
This business of pruning vigorously, preparatory to setting, is gen 
erally a very ungrateful one to the planter, as it spoils for the time 
the good looks of the tree to an unpracticed eye. It should how- 
ever be unhesitatingly performed, all the branches to the extent of 
at least one half the length of the previous year’s growth being 
removed ; care should also be used to give the proper form to the 
tree. The head may be left high or low, as the taste of the planter 
may prefer, or as the nature of the tree in some cases may require- 
