HOW TO TRANSPLANTTREES FROM WOOD.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 29, 22 December 1883, Page 7

HOW TO TR AN SPL ANT TREES FROM WOOD.

Many think it cheaper and hotter to take up l:ii#o treys from the woods, and transplant them to their or to the roadside, than to bu^ nursery hoes. As « rule, such tree* <l?o ; the}' fail bccau v proper pnwiiaiinnb h.ive not been taken In digging up the tree, all the roots outside of a ciicle a lew feot in diameter artcut off, .i/ui the tree i j reset with its full head of branches. Whoever has seen tree& in the forest thai were upturned by a tornado, muM !i;u c ljecn struck by the Hiunix-r in whuli tlie roots run wry ne.ii to the surface, and to a great distance. When the roots of these trees are cut oil at two »ir three fwt f> .)ni the truck, lew or no iibrouK 01 feeding roots arc left ; and if the nw^< of toj».-> >-> Wt, tlie expansion of the buii.s iii the bpiing will not be responded to by a supply of sap from the roots, And death utiioL follow. If such itniif ha\c tin 1 tops completely removed, leaving a U«ire poic, ihey will usually grow -vvhtin i),)iiaphintvd. The tioe is Jittlf more t!> :n un imniense cutting j but there are ro-iu» enough leit to im-et the demand of the few bbuota Uiat start from the top, and growth above and below ground arc well balanced. Tivch, iit'tccn l'cot or mere ln^,h, are traijHplanted in thismanneij without u laiiuie. Some trecb tieatod in

this im mer, v » * plani ' in '< v neighbor]} »o.i aboni I- ii year ;i ',o. Vhov hove now as fine I' .t<l as on would v ' h. and «li(iw no s'ig'ii.-; of fontiiT roMii'ii i.^atmeut. Trees in pastures, or on the od&c of the woods, are bettor furnished with roots, Those should be prepared for iransphmtinijf by dicing- down to the root . u . I cutting off dl that extend Iwjond \ »c d> - Mivd distance. This will cause tli • f«:mation of iibrons roots nenr the tree, it will bo safer to t?ikr> two yo-irs ii»- thi % operation, cutting hal£ of' the roots each )rars. Svich trees may be removed in sutVty, esppcially if a srnod .sharo ot th ; top ih removed at trunspluntin^. Shrubs of various kinds rcpuro t!>o wiino treatment. Ai.tny ot uni ji.jtivo .sl»>u'is tire of &ic,it beamy and desiiiiblc as oinmnonts ti> tho gicunds. As ordinarily transplanted they mo iaieh Mti^factoj-y. If tho whole top of theM" .-iuub-, <?\oiy bunch, be removed, leaving- only a stick with as miu-h root a* can bo .seemed, .success i.s <(niti-ceJt-vin. We have iemo\cd the Laurol (KaJnjia lafifoli* 1 ) rifely in lhi« njanner ; and shrubs show no ol' tlieir rougli tieatuieul* — American A^iicuUmist.