CONTENTS. 
PART I. 
Page 
Practice of transplanting - - - 1 
PART II. 
Theory of transplanting, or, physiology of trees in refe¬ 
rence to transplanting - - - - 14 
Chapter I. The food of plants is imbibed by the sur¬ 
face of the roots - - - - - 14 
Chapter II. Course of the sap from the root to the 
leaf, and back to the root - - - - 44 
Chapter III. Upward growth of the head, and down¬ 
ward growth of the root - - - - 87 
Chapter TV. Miscellaneous - 127 
PART III. 
Are soils enriched, impoverished, or poisoned by 
vegetable growth? These questions include, ex¬ 
cretion of roots; sociability of plants; accumu¬ 
lation of soil in woods; general denudation of soil 
from wash of rain - - - - - 158 
PART IV. 
Pruning and thinning - - - - 210 
PART V. 
A 3 
The park pinetum 
- 261 
