Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-02-14

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Transplanting Trees, Roses, Shrubs
and Evergreens.
From an article recently published we OBJ.
serve that November is recommended as the
proper season to transplant fruit trees. Some
seasons this month would do, but the present
year the transplanting of fruit trees would
have been extremely hazardous. as we have
not as yet, in middle South Carolina, had
frost sufficiently severe to check vegetation
completely. Our young trees and roses took
such a strong growth after the extreme not
weather ceased, that it will take, at least, till
the twenly-fth of November to fit them for
transplantng. A tree should never be taken
up whilst it will visibly shrink upon removal.
We have no criterion in the dropping of the
leaves of the forest trees, as the origin oil
forest trees is so various that many kinds
require certain degree of cold to stop their
growth Young nursery trees, too, being
we'll cultivated, hold their leaves longer and
grow more luxuriantly than fruit.bearing
trees in orchards-so the proper time to trans
plant is, whenever the juices of the tree be.
come inactive dry summer, with an ex-
treme degree Of heat, followed by delight
rul and seasonable autumn, prolonged into
the heart of winter, has with US added a
third more wood of late growth to trees, and
has at the same time delayed the season for
transp planting.
In South Carolina, we find no difficulty in
transp! lnting trees and shrubbery from No.
vember 25 to as late in the Spring as we can
retard the leaves Trees should never be
touched when the soil is frozen. The milder
aud Grier the weather in winter, the better
the success will be had. We dig our holes
after blowing the land, as deep as we can;
twelve inches deep, and al least five feet in
dameter We half fill the holes with good
rich vegetable compost, broken bones, &c.
and then place the tree in its proper position,
the earth in the hole being little more ele-
waited Immediately under the trunk. We then
place the roots so that they are arranged in
every part of the hole, when it is filled up
carefully with a similar compost. The tree
should not be planted more than an inch
deeper than it stood in the nursery. When
the hole is about three parts filled, we pour
gently around the stem about five gallons of
water, after which the operation is finished
by completely filling it up, and making
slight mound around the trunk. We never
pack in the earth around a tree, as tie wa.
tering will consolidate it sufficiently around
the roots to make it grow This watering
will be all the tree will require, if it be prop.
erly mulched with leaves, straw, sawdust, or
old tan bark If trees have been long out of
the ground, the roots should be well soaked
six hours before planlng, and we have fire.
quently revived such as were to all appear
auces dead, by burying them entirely in the
earth for ten days, after having restored vi
tality to the bark by soaking them in water.
The trunks of all newly transplanted trees
should be protected from the sun. A bunch
of broom sedge, so common every where in
the South, if properly tied around them, is
the best means of doing so. We head in all
trees severel y, no matter how fine the roots
may be prepared for removal, one year pre-
viously, by cutting in both their heads and
roots but, at best, the removal Of large trees
at the South is hazardous and Improbable.
Stakes 10 trees are useless. When a tree
will not stand erect, it should be manurcd
aud cut in TILL it acquired sufficient vigor to
stand as tree. The knife and food is all a
tree requires to keep it erect aud vigorous.
Until newly planted trees are 6rm y rooted,
they should lie regularly inspected and
Strengthened up. When watering is necessa-
ry, the earth should be removed for q few
inches from the tree, and the water poured
gently around the trunk, till the earth in tine
vicinity OF the roots absorbs it. This should
be done in the evening to be effective, and
the small hole made should he carefully filled
up the next day by sunrise, with loose mellow
earth, after which the mulching should be
placed around the tree. When the buds Of
"a newly planted tree are dormant and late
starting, we have frequently found that an
additional watering OF the limbs and trunk
immediately reused :hem into active growth.
In fact, by wrapping the stem and limbs OF
valuable pear tree, the roots Of which had
been destroyed by rats on shipboard, with
rags, and regularly moistening them, we pre-
served the variety, and induced the tree,
which had not a vestge Of fbrous roots left,
to live and flourish. 1t is now as vigorous
as need be, and its roots have spread as wide:
ly as its top.
For transplanting roses, evergreens, and
shrubbcry we would advise the deep and
thorough preparation of the soil throug hont
the whole plat, and then plant much in the
same manner as directed above for fruit
trees. Roses and decididous shrubs, and
such evergreens as do not belong to the
Conifere and cypress families, should have
their heads well cut in. The Pinacee, en-
bracing the suborders Of AbieteG and Gu.
pressee, and in which are comprised the
Firs, Cedars, Arborvile, Expresses, larches
and all resinous evergreen trees together with
the yews do not require much pruning, when
transplanted, as it must he dona when the
trees are very small The holly, both native
and foreign, and which under proper culture
is beautiful evergreen tree, requires great
cutting in when transpanted. All land be-
fore planting trees should be thoroughly
drained.
We receive so many queries as to these
things, that our leisure will not permit US to
answer each correspondent separately, how
ever much we might be inclined to do so.
We, therefore embody the above hints and
ask the newspapers Of the State to give them
publicity, as matters of general interest 10
their readers.
SIMMER e. &CRAMMOND.