. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . .The cut roots heal over and send outfibrous roots, which should not be in-jured more than is necessary in movingthe trees next fall or spring. Young,thrifty maples and elms, originallyfrom the nursery, do notneed such preparationnearly as much as otherand older trees. In mov-ing a tree, we begin bydigging a wide trench six to eight feet from it, leaving all possibleroots fast to jt. By digging under the tree in the wide trench, andworking the soil out of the
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . .The cut roots heal over and send outfibrous roots, which should not be in-jured more than is necessary in movingthe trees next fall or spring. Young,thrifty maples and elms, originallyfrom the nursery, do notneed such preparationnearly as much as otherand older trees. In mov-ing a tree, we begin bydigging a wide trench six to eight feet from it, leaving all possibleroots fast to jt. By digging under the tree in the wide trench, andworking the soil out of the roots by means of round or dull-pointed sticks, the soil falls into the cavity made under the or four men in as many hours could get so much of thesoil away from the roots that it would be safe to attach a ropeand tackle to the upper part of the trunk and to some adjoiningpost or tree for the purpose of pulling the tree over. A goodquantity of bagging must be put around the tree under the ropeto prevent injury, and care should be taken that the pulling ofthe rope does not split off or break a limb. A team is hitched to. 148. Moving a large tree. THE HANDLING OF THE PLANTS 133 the end of the draft rope, and slowly driven in the proper direc-tion to pull the tree over. If the tree does not readily tip over,dig under and cut off any fast root. While it is tipped over,work out more of the soil with the sticks. Now pass a largerope, double, around a few large roots close to the tree, leavingthe ends of the rope turned up by the trunk to be used in lift-ing the tree at the proper time. Tip the tree in the oppositedirection and put another large rope around the large rootsclose to the trunk; remove more soil and see that no roots arefast to the guy-ropes at-tached to the upperparts of the tree,as shown in the cut(Fig. 149), shouldbe put on properlyand used to pre-vent the tree fromtipping over too faras well as to keep itupright. A gooddeal of the soil can 149-
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