. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 130 GARDEN JIANAGEMENT. their age and some at another, cease to assimilate themselves with the stocks upon which they have been worked. This is to be seen by a thickening of the tree just about the place where it has been worked. This thickening, which in some parts of the country is called a burr, is always to be regarded as an effort of nature to throw out new roots and preserve life, and should be treated accordingly. If the tree has originally been worked, and the burr
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 130 GARDEN JIANAGEMENT. their age and some at another, cease to assimilate themselves with the stocks upon which they have been worked. This is to be seen by a thickening of the tree just about the place where it has been worked. This thickening, which in some parts of the country is called a burr, is always to be regarded as an effort of nature to throw out new roots and preserve life, and should be treated accordingly. If the tree has originally been worked, and the burr consequently shows itself at some distance above the groimd, a large box should be provided, and placed round the burr, in such a way that it may contain a quantity of soil, into which the tree can strike out its new roots. This soil should be a light loam, and always kept moist. la the second or third year, new roots will have been formed, and the tree may safely be separated by a saw from the old stock, and let down into the earth beneath. When the tree has been worked close to the surface, a place about a yard square may easily be built up with bricks or tUes, and filled with light soil a few inches over the burr, to receive the new roots. In this way the writer has jDreserved two small trees of the Stm-mer pippin, which he found fast dwindling away, the stocks on which they were worked not having power to sustain them. By a somewhat similar process, the healthy branch, i, of a favourite tree may be preserved by layering it in a box or pot, a, as in the engraving. 250. This is one mode of treatment which our correspondent D. furnishes us with ; another, whose object is to utilize the roots and stem of the old tree, are also connected with the operations under consideration. 29 r. The final cause of the languishing state of these trees being the absence â¢of vigorous young shoots and the imperfect organization of the cambium and liber, and, finally, the abortion of its roo
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