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TRANSPLANTING. [chap. iii. 
for some hours, and afterwards carefully ex¬ 
amined, and the withered and decayed parts 
cut off. 
In removing large trees , care is taken to 
prepare the roots by cutting a trench round 
the tree for a year or two before removal, 
and pruning off all the roots that pro¬ 
ject into it. This is to answer the same 
purpose as transplanting young trees in a 
nursery; while the bad effects of con¬ 
tracting the range of the roots is counter¬ 
acted, by filling the trench with rich fresh 
earth. The removal is also conducted with 
much care; and either a large ball of earth 
is removed with the tree, or the roots are 
kept moist, and spread out carefully, at full 
length, when the tree is replanted. Some 
planters, before removing trees, mark which 
side stood to the south, in order to replant 
them with the same side turned towards the 
sun; and this is sometimes done with young 
trees from a nursery. The reason is, that 
the tree having generally largest branches, 
and being always most flourishing on the 
side exposed to the sun; it is thought that 
its vegetation might be checked, were a dif- 
