It features articles on botany, horticulture, and landscape gardening with an emphasis on woody plants hardy in temperate regions. Volume 56, Number 4, like most issues published since 1975, is available for purchase. Ancient Forest Relics David W. Stahle Centuries-old trees persist in thousands of forest remnants across the United States. Small and weathered, they preserve, in a fragmentary pattern, one stratum of our presettlement forest ecology and biodiversity. Both experience and research make it clear that almost any size tree of any species can be transplanted.
Success depends on the reestablishment of a normal spreading root system.
An understanding of how roots grow and take up water can aid the process, even on difficult sites. An irregular pattern in a radial section of weathered wood from an ancient bristlecone pine, caused by the juncture of a large branch with the trunk.