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the greatest care is taken to keep them 
moist. This is the end in view in puddling 
or fixing by water in transplanting; and 
many planters always dip the roots of trees 
and shrubs in water before replanting. When 
a tree or shrub is taken up that is to be con¬ 
veyed any distance, the roots should be 
wrapped up as soon as it is taken out of the 
ground, in wet moss, and covered with bast 
matting; and where moss cannot be pro¬ 
cured, they should be dipped in very wet 
mud, and then matted up. Cabbage-plants 
are frequently preserved in this manner; 
and are conveyed, without any other cover¬ 
ing to their roots than a cake of mud, to a 
considerable distance. In all cases where 
plants are taken up long before they are 
replanted, their roots should be kept moist 
by opening a trench, and laying the plants 
along it, and then covering their roots with 
earth. This, gardeners call, laying plants 
in by the heels. Where this cannot be 
done, and the plants are kept long out of 
the ground, their roots should be examined, 
and moistened from time to time; and be¬ 
fore replanting they should be laid in water 
