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TRANSPLANTING DIFFICULT SHRUBS 
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Another time for burying considerable 
stem tissue occurs when one takes up partly 
rooted layers and treats them as cuttings. 
Even if the amount of root that has been 
produced is tiny, the “cutting” that has any 
root at all on it is treated as a cutting 
(that is, set out with only a bud, or scarce- 
ly that, above ground) will usually grow. 
It will scarcely be necessary to point out 
that the successful rooting of hardwood cut- 
tings, which, at the time they are taken 
to the field have no roots at all, or only 
callouses, depends upon the same principle, 
that of preventing evaporation from the 
stem tissues until roots have been produced, 
by getting practically all their surface below 
the soil. 
One of the values of this whole discussion 
will be to reveal the reason for pruning 
back even subjects that are ordinarily easy 
to transplant. Some day I should like to 
write an article entitled “The ‘Trials and 
Tribulations of a Nurseryman”, in which I 
would tell how the public fights the necess- 
ity of pruning their newly purchased shrubs, 
and how the resentment of the average buyer 
(of which the average nurseryman is per- 
fectly aware) at finding his shrubs and trees 
pruned for him, results in an enormous pro- 
portion of the annual planting of trees and 
shrubs being done improperly, and how this, 
in turn, is reflected in the death of plants 
which otherwise would live. Statistics re- 
veal that about three quarters of all nursery 
stock sold never lives and of the figure of 
seventy-five, it would be safe to estimate 
that at least sixty would represent the 
losses that occur because the nurseryman is 
not allowed to do the pruning that he 
knows to be necessary. The pity of it is 
that that part of the buying public which 
is perfectly willing to prune if told that bet- 
ter results will thereby be secured, also fails 
to prune, because the individual buyer says, 
“Well, if pruning had been needed the nur- 
seryman would have done it.’ Some nur- 
serymen make a compromise by pruning off 
about half of what they know to be desir- 
able, and in this case the amenable port- 
ion of the public is still more likely to be 
mislead, for they will say, “the nurseryman 
has pruned it, and so it must be pruned 
right”. 
It is customary to allow trees to take a 
much greater risk of not living than shrubs, 
on account of the greater difficulty of re- 
placing a single trunk than the top of a 
branched shrub. However, a single trunk 
CAN be replaced, too, if the grower is will- 
ing to spend enough time in removing the 
buds that result from pruning, to one, over 
the course of an appropriate time. Many 
trees are comparatively easy subjects, and 
for them it is best to err on the side of 
leaving too much rather than too little top. 
However, the pruning should undoubtly be 
done at the place which will do most to 
prevent too premature and abundant a Jeaf- 
ing out and the least to destroy the main 
trunk which it is so hard to replace. The 
drier the area, and the drier the year, the 
more. should be sacrificed. A good deal of 
trouble results from the inhabitants of dry- 
soil areas attempting to follow the methods 
that have proved reasonably successful in 
more humid areas. On the whole it is pro- 
bable that a good deal more is lost by 
the too-sanguine planting out of trees than 
of shrubs. 
Even when the gardener desires to take 
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VIOLAS - XERANTHEMUM 
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VALERIANA. (val-eer-ee-AY-nuh) VALERIAN. Valerianaceae. 
Perennial plants and shrubs with small white or rose flowers in cymes or spikes. 
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VERBESINA. (ver-bes-SYE-nuh) Compositae. 
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VERNONIA. (ver-NOH-nee-uh) IRONWEED. Compositae. 
Herbaceous perennials in the North and tropical trees and shrubs in the South. The 
flowers are showy and in purple, pink or white heads of disk flowers, i i 
i , , in termin - 
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—glabra. Deep blue; 1-2 ft; good for cutting; S. Rhodesia: TP - 
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VIDORELLA. (vid-o-RELL-ah) 
Seeds from S. Rhodesia; better classification later. 
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VINCA. (VIN-kah) PERIWINKLE. Aprocynaceae. 
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