HOUSE AND GARDEN 
432 
May, 1913 
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where on the bole the surface of the 
ground will come, after the hole is filled in, 
by laying a plank or a straight edge across 
the hole from side to side, close up to the 
plant. The earth will, of course, come to 
the level which this touches. Raise or 
lower the plant as may be needed, by put¬ 
ting on or taking off earth from the earth 
cushion. The surface of the ground must 
come at the old surface mark on trunk or 
stems. 
Arrange all long roots in the direction 
which they very plainly indicate they have 
been traveling, being particularly careful 
not to twist them nor bend them sharply, 
nor to allow their tips to lie turned up 
against the walls of the hole wherein they 
are being planted. Root tips naturally 
turn down, and a root is always deeper in 
the ground at its tip than anywhere else 
along its length. Never overlook this 
point — and never allow a helper to shirk 
on the breadth of the hole dug, for it is 
the too narrow hole that means root tips 
turned skyward, in spite of anything that 
may be done to avoid this. 
Trees and shrubs that arrive in their 
packing from the nursery have their roots 
pressed down so close sometimes that it is 
hard to tell how they naturally would like 
to rest. But close examination will usu¬ 
ally reveal their directions without much 
doubt; and if this does not, plunge them 
into a broad tubful of water or liquid mud 
until they are softened enough to resume 
their natural positions. Then let them dry 
sufficiently to prevent the earth from ad¬ 
hering to them in mud clods as they are 
lowered into it; and plant just as you 
would plant a freshly-dug specimen. 
All that applies to shrubs and trees, and 
the restoration of their roots to their orig¬ 
inal positions when transplanting, of 
course holds good whatever the plant that 
is to be moved may be. But perennials and 
flowers generally, not being woody, re¬ 
cover more readily from the shock of 
transplanting, and most of them suffer less 
from it than the heavier vegetation. Even 
some of these plants, however, cannot 
endure it. Most of them have the same 
long tap root growth already referred to 
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rather do the work early in the morning 
and shade the plants all day, or leave it 
till late in the afternoon. My own pref¬ 
erence is for the time just around sunset, 
when the transplanted specimens may be 
watered and left to the cool soothing night 
to adjust themselves and become accus¬ 
tomed to their new position. Any sort 
of shade will do, when shade is necessarv, 
(Continued on page 434) 
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