APPENDIX. 
I. 
Niies on transplanting trees. Reasons for frequent failures in removing large trees. 
Directions for performing this operation. Selection of subjects. Preparing trees for 
removal Transplanting evergreens. 
There is no subject on which the professional horticulturist is more 
frequently consulted in America, than transplanting trees. And, as it 
is an essential branch of Landscape Gardening — indeed, perhaps, the 
most important and necessary one to be practically understood in the 
improvement or embellishment of new country residences; — we shall 
offer a few remarks here, with the hope of rendering it a more easy 
and successful practice in the hands of amateurs. 
The first and most important consideration in transplanting should 
be the preservation of the roots . By this we do not mean a certain bulk 
of the larger and more important ones only, but as far as possible all 
the numerous small fibres and rootlets so indispensably necessary in 
assisting the tree to recover from the shock of removal. The coarser 
and larger roots serve to secure the tree in its position, and convey the 
fluids; but it is by means of the small fibrous roots, or the delicate and 
numerous points of these fibres called spongioles , that the food of 
plants is imbibed, and the destruction of such is manifestly in the 
highest degree fatal to the success of the transplanted tree. To avoid 
this as far as practicable, we should, in removing a tree, commence at 
such a distance as to include a circumference large enough to comprise 
the great majority of the roots. At that distance from the trunk we 
shall find most of the smaller roots, which should be carefully loosened 
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