. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. THE PRINCIPLES OF PLANTING 65 to pegs driven firmly into the ground at the three points of a triangle will serve the purpose. To prevent the wires from injuring the tree they should pass through pieces of rubber hose wherever they touch it. PLANTING WITH DYNAMITE When a large number of trees are to be planted, or when the sub- soil is very hard, the holes are sometimes blasted with dynamite (Fig. 69). If this is done, care must be taken that the hole made (which is generally deeper than is necessary) is filled firmly up to the height
. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. THE PRINCIPLES OF PLANTING 65 to pegs driven firmly into the ground at the three points of a triangle will serve the purpose. To prevent the wires from injuring the tree they should pass through pieces of rubber hose wherever they touch it. PLANTING WITH DYNAMITE When a large number of trees are to be planted, or when the sub- soil is very hard, the holes are sometimes blasted with dynamite (Fig. 69). If this is done, care must be taken that the hole made (which is generally deeper than is necessary) is filled firmly up to the height at which the tree is to be planted. If this is not done the soil will settle much more than if the hole were dug by hand, and the tree will be left too deep and will not thrive. TRANSPLANTING WILD TREES Before moving a tree from the woods, it is advisable to root-prune it as directed under "Root-pruning" (page 70). This should be done in early Spring; then, after the trench is filled with good soil, the tree should be allowed to stand until the following Autumn or, better still, the next Spring. It can then be moved with less root injury. If it is taken out in Winter, it can be handled with a frozen ball of earth and. Fig. 64. Diagrammatic examples of tree grouping. (A) is decidedly poor, both because it uses three specimens of the same size, shape and type in a symmetrical group, and because this arrangement detracts from the real beauty of any one of them. (B) is better, and (C) better still, both of these having variety in height, mass, sky line and perspective. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jennings, Arthur J; Johnson, Leonard H. New York, A. T. De La Mare
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