. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. 28 TRANSPLANTING TREES. succeed on clay and the reverse ; this, if they will only use reason, and study the nature of obtaining food by the tree, they will see, at once, has no foundation in fact; but a tree taken from the rich ground of a well kept nursery, and placed in a barren, half-starved soil, amid grass and weeds, has no more chance of continuing in vigor and health, than an animal raised upon the rich pastures of our western country would have, transplanted to some of the bleak, bar- ren hills of New England. Food for
. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. 28 TRANSPLANTING TREES. succeed on clay and the reverse ; this, if they will only use reason, and study the nature of obtaining food by the tree, they will see, at once, has no foundation in fact; but a tree taken from the rich ground of a well kept nursery, and placed in a barren, half-starved soil, amid grass and weeds, has no more chance of continuing in vigor and health, than an animal raised upon the rich pastures of our western country would have, transplanted to some of the bleak, bar- ren hills of New England. Food for the plant is therefore requi- site, and this should be prepared, in a well and previously cultivated and enriched soil, and not expected to be supplied in a raw state, by application of animal manures immediately to the roots; this should never be done; but, Prof. Lindley says, " that a small quantity of super-phosphate of lime, as it is called, that is to say, a mixture of oil of vitriol and burnt bones, mixed with dry mould, and thrown in round the roots of a newly-transplanted tree, will generally aid in the formation of root fibres, and, consequently, assist very much in establishing the plant in its new situation; or, if scattered over the soil next the roots, the rains will distribute it to the places where most ; How to Plant. Having prepared the place and the soil, we next proceed to plant the tree. Supposing that the roots, in removing, have been carefully preserved, our tree will present, when placed in the hole pre- pared for it, the appear- ance represented in our fig. 17, the upper root being about four inches lower than the level of the surrounding soil. If the roots are broken, prune, bv a cut from the .under side of each end. â Now, one man should scatter carefully in the Fis-17- fine earth, while another holds the body of the tree with one hand, and with the other care- fully presses the earth around and beneath every root, taking care to ke
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