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CONTENTS. 
PART I. 
Page 
Practical part of transplanting - - 1 
Advantages of the system - - - - 1 
Description of the tree-lifter - - - - 3 
Description of implements - - - - 6 
Description of water-cask - - - - 8 
Directions for practice - - - - 9 
PART II. 
Theory of transplanting, or, physiology of trees 
IN REFERENCE TO TRANSPLANTING - - - 14 
CHAPTER I. 
The food of plants is imbibed by the surface of 
THE ROOTS - - - - " - 14 
Proportion the head of a transplanted tree to the 
root - - - - - -14 
Prefatory remark to entering on the physiology of 
trees - - - - - - 14 
The course of this Treatise will go, with the sap, from 
the root, through the wood to the leaf, and back by 
the bark to the root - - - - 15 
Except the unripe ends of roots, trees imbibe from all 
parts exposed to moisture, and transpire from all 
parts exposed to drought - - - - 16 
The food of trees is imbibed by the surface of the roots 16 
Food of agastric animals imbibed by the surface - 16 
Seeds imbibe by the surface - - - - 17 
Cuttings imbibe by the surface - - - 18 
The coiled branch imbibes by the surface - - 19 
Radishes imbibe by the surface - - - 19 
The unripe ends of roots do not imbibe - - 20 
Formation of the ends of roots - - - 20 
Ends of roots consist only of bark, which is the descend¬ 
ing, not the ascending, conduit r - - 21 
