Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-08

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This subject has often been written upon, but
| from the continued inquiries made OF Us, we are
| induced to give briefly the chief reasons for and
| against the practice. -,
There are certain conditions under which fall
| trapsplanting is always advantageous, and gen.
! orally best These conditions are haray trees
| and dry soil.
| |. They should be hardy for tender tree is
always made more susceptible to the cold of win
| ter BY removal in autumn.
| .. The soil should be dry, or admit such wa
| ter as falls upon it to pass oflfreely. 1t Is very
| severe treatment TO allow water to collect about
a tree: and then to freeze hard among the newly
| set roots.
| Arple trees are very hardy, and generally
succard best if set out in autumn, as the soil be-
comes well settled about them. and they have
nothing to do early in the spring but to com
mcnce growing. In this way they get an earlier
start. If the roots of q fall transplanied apple
tree are examined in spring about the usual time
for digging trees, new set OF rootlets will be
found pushing out from the old ones. at least a
week or two in advance of any that may be emit
ted by spring set trees If. however, they are
dug in the fall and well laid in, the rootets
will be formed early in spring and such trees, if
set out carefully, as not to injure these, will
possess decided advantage over such as are
dug in the spring.
Cherry and pear trees are nearly as hardy as
the apple, and may be advantageously removed
in autumn, if the precautions we have pointed
out observed.
Peach trees are half hardy, and their success
can be relied on, only under favorable influences,
For instance, the wood should be well ripened,
otherwise the shoots, or at least their tips, will
be winter killed. The ground must not only adj
nit the water to flow off freely, but must not re-
tain it in the subsoil.
1t is absolutely necessary in all cases, ard
with all sorts of trees, hardy or otherwise, to Sc
cure them from being blown about by the wind.
Small trees, with long, carefully taken up roots,
will not be easily moved, and all that Is necess-
airy with these in any case. will be to bank up
small steep mound around the stem foot high
which will also protect them perfectly from the
MICE and also assist in keeping the frost out OF
the roots. by the depth of the soil above them
these mounds to be removed the following spring
But larger trees, and especially those with the
roots cut short, will require stalking. The stake
may be driven with less danger of biting and
njuring the roots if tho operation is performed
before the hole Is filled.
When all the preceding precautions cannot be
properly taken, II Is best 10 procure the trees IN
autumn, and " lay them in by the roots" or dig
trench OF hole, place the roots in, and bury
that and half the stems for the winter. But es-
pecial care is needed to fill in all instances with
finely pulyerized earth to place them on dry
bottom, or else on the surface of the ground. and
bank up to them; and where injury from nice Is
apprehended to set them nearly upright, and
throw up the earth in the form of mound
around them. No mouse will ever ascend n
mound of fresh earth under the snow and if
there are no nsterstices among the trees, they
! will never touch them.
1t must not be forgotten, however, that imror-
tant as is the proper transpanting of trees, their
subsequent success, fine growth and productive
ness, depend more good clean and careful af-
Al. II. I
and that the planter ght well expect to raise
40 bushels of corn in unploughed meadow,
as to look for fruit or young trees growing among
grass and weeks .-HorticuIturist.