. Canadian fruit, flower, and kitchen gardener [microform] : a guide in all matters relating to the cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables and their value for cultivation in this climate. Gardening; Flower gardening; Fruit-culture; Jardinage; Floriculture; Horticulture fruitière. TRANSPL ANTING. 27 earth. If thia be not attended to, better not to give any water at all, for the hot suu will only bako the earth the harder for your watering. The TREES MOST SUITABLE FOR PLANTING aro young, healthy trees of from two to four years' growth. It is dilTicult to transplant largo trees successfull
. Canadian fruit, flower, and kitchen gardener [microform] : a guide in all matters relating to the cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables and their value for cultivation in this climate. Gardening; Flower gardening; Fruit-culture; Jardinage; Floriculture; Horticulture fruitière. TRANSPL ANTING. 27 earth. If thia be not attended to, better not to give any water at all, for the hot suu will only bako the earth the harder for your watering. The TREES MOST SUITABLE FOR PLANTING aro young, healthy trees of from two to four years' growth. It is dilTicult to transplant largo trees successfully, on account of the impossibility of preserving tho small fibrous roots, which are most numerous towards tho extremities of tho large roots, in sufficient quantity to support tho tree. It is through tho small fibrous roots that the tree derives its nourishment from the ground, and, therefore, tho more numerous they are tho more likely the tree is to tlirive, and more of these can be taken up entire in removing a small tree than a largo one. Young trees, that have been grown in suitable soU and properly taken up, will be furnished with a good supply of roots. The best soil in which to grow young trees for transplanting is a good, sandy loam. They will make much better and more fibrous roots in such a soil than when grown in stiff clay, and are consequently more likely to live and thrive well when transplanted. Some have entertained the opinion that trees from a sandy soil will not thrive when planted in clay, and that trees from a clay soil will not thrive when removed to sandy soil. This is a great mistake. A tree weU supplied with fibrous roots will thrive in any soil, and the nurse- ryman who consults the best interests of his customers will select a rich, sandy loam in which to grow his young trees, experience having taught us that in such a soil they throw out an abundance of small and fibrous roots. In taking up a tree, it is im- possible but that some of the roots will
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