. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. TRANSPLANTING. 69 placed in its new situation precisely as it stood before, it would suffer no check in growth. The nearer then, we can approach this, the greater will be our success. There is no difficulty in saving the leaf-bearing branches. All our attention must accordingly be directed to the roots. The spade should be set into the earth at
. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. TRANSPLANTING. 69 placed in its new situation precisely as it stood before, it would suffer no check in growth. The nearer then, we can approach this, the greater will be our success. There is no difficulty in saving the leaf-bearing branches. All our attention must accordingly be directed to the roots. The spade should be set into the earth at a distance from the tree, and the whole carefully lifted, not forcibly with- drawn, from the soil. Or, so much of the earth should be separated in a circle by the spade, that when the tree is withdrawn, a large portion of the soil may be lifted with it with the small fibres.* The roots of a young tree usually extend in a circle quite equal to its height; the workman, therefore, who cuts off all within six inches of a tree which is itself eight feet high, deprives it of a large portion of , V I, its means of sustenance. In the annexed figure, a indicates the trunk of the tree; lb the circle of roots ctit off witL the spade in a hasty re- moval ; and without tnis circle, the rest of the roots which are left in the earth. Fig. 35. But in ordinary, ot even very careful prac- tice, a part of this wide network of fibres must necessarily be separated Fis- 3S- from the tree. It is evi- dent then, that the usual supplies of sap to the leaves must be in part cut off. Now the leaves are constantly (during day) throwing off insensible moisture into the air; and good sized trees thus give off daily, many pounds. Keduce the supply from below, and the leaves cannot flourish; and if the reduction is severe, the tree withers and dies. The remedy consists in lessening the number of leaves, * Some cultivators have adopted the opinion that the small fibres are unimportant, and may be out off witho
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