September, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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may be in very early spring, of course, or 
in the fall, and the best season of these 
two must be determined largely by general 
climatic conditions, and in special cases by 
the character of the particular season. 
Fall planting he seemed to favor, east of 
the Mississippi valley, although he warned 
us about mulching everything planted in 
the fall during its first winter. Especially 
are things that are fall planted likely to be 
heaved out of the ground by frost, for of 
course they have not actually taken hold 
upon the earth themselves with their roots, 
and are therefore easily popped out of it. 
Mulch is the precaution against this; in¬ 
deed, mulch he insisted upon very em¬ 
phatically for any and everything moved 
in the autumn. 
When you dig up any kind of seedling, 
plunge its roots immediately into a “pud¬ 
dle” — which is a mud-pie mixture about 
as thick as rich cream. This coats the 
roots and tiny rootlets evenly with air¬ 
proof material and prevents their drying 
out, which is the fatal thing to evergreens 
and a very trying thing to deciduous spe¬ 
cies. Carry the seedling to its new abode 
in the pail containing the puddle, if you 
are only moving one plant; or, if you are 
transplanting a number, carry as many as 
your receptacle will hold from their or¬ 
iginal home to their new one. Then set 
the little plants out just as you would set 
out any little plant, carefully putting earth 
under and around through their roots and 
firming it in. And it is well, said he, to 
set them into the ground a trifle deeper 
than they stood when they were taken out 
of it. Moreover, the earth should never 
be mounded up around the bole of any 
tree newly planted — or of any tree any¬ 
where — but rather it should be left in a 
saucer-like depression, which will catch 
moisture and pour it down along the bole 
to the roots. 
Conifers are much more susceptible to 
drying out during the moving operation 
than deciduous trees, and once their roots 
dry it is all day with them, for the resin 
in them hardens and no amount of mois¬ 
ture applied thereafter will soften it one 
bit. So it is well to dig up the tiny conifers, 
which he says are the largest one should 
ever attempt to move from the woods, 
with a ball of earth on their roots. Such 
a ball will make it possible to move larger 
trees from the woods, if one is willing to 
take time about the work and go to some 
trouble. He does not advise it; he only 
says, “You may try it—with a chance of 
not absolutely failing!” The trouble he 
mentioned was the work of partly digging 
the tree free in the fall before the ground 
has frozen. No roots are exposed, but a 
large, deep circle is dug around it, so that 
the earth attached to the roots will freeze 
separately and be quite free from the sur¬ 
rounding earth. This makes it possible to 
life the tree with a very big protective 
ball—it will weigh a perfectly unthinkable 
amount, he warned us!—with which it is 
moved to the hole, dug also before frost. 
Then it is planted by filling in the small 
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