New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-04-12

-. u,e ume OF transplannng, thereby ex-
posing the ends of the cut limds to the action
OF our dry atmosphere while the pores are dcs.
t'tute OF the life current Of the tree. Nature
Keeps the ends Of these arteries carefully clos.
Cd, or covered but if laid open while the cir
cu!at'on is free then the exuding sap soon pro-
vldes the needed covering, and the healing
process Is sooH commenced. But in a time of
dormancy, the atmosphere eften dries down
INTO tho decapitated stumps, and the taking
on OF another cutting if often found necessary
to divsst the tree Of dead wood, whose infln
ence during the interum has been exceeding.
ly hustful. Tho truth il well attested. tha
the life-giving rootlets of transplanted tret
will not strike out for nourishment till ther.
are expanding buds or leaflets to act in con
cert with them, or rather to cause their ac.
ton. As we'll might the telegraphic inventor
or operator attempt to send out upon an isola.
ted line the swift winged messenger that Old
Job thought could never be tanned, rs fol
any one to expect that food securing rootlets
will form and act singly and alone The e.
lectric fluid will only 20 on errands for us
when each end OF the line is inserted in the
ground 20 that mother earth may become an
other line to bring back the truthful current.
So also are the vital energies Of the atnss-
phere, acting through the entire tree equally
needed tor the formation of the necessary
roots.
Those therefore, who advise to rob the tree
OF Its first principles of vitality, as they say,
to restore the balance which has been lost
by the cutting off Of the roots must surely
possess faith not unlike that Of the church
who caused the lightning rod upon their edifce
to come down and terminate in q large beam
directly over the minister's head. Ia such q
case, however potent the warning to the pas
tor, or however strong hearsay faith in
lightning rod protection, might be the faith
OF tho mass OF worshipers there, doubtless
the true desiples of DR.. Franklin would take
their hats, and start for their own homes
when they heard . thunder storm approach.
ing, knowing that the electrical protectors ol
their own dwellings did not stop short of the
earth's moist bedding.
You will please excuse some prolixity upon
this point, for, while those worthy nursery
men advise US to cut back the tops and save
all the roots uninjured that we possibly can,
they will also tell us in the next breath, shat
eur fruit trees are far moro dependant upon
our atmosphere for existence than upon our
SOIL yet at the same time they will still con-
tinue to tell US to mutilats and destroy those
very parts of our trees which the God Of ma.
ture has spread out on purpose to secure the
light, the heat and tho balny breath o1
Heaven, and then they wonder why the
poor, Gmbless, sickly trees don't begin to
grow faster. rat.t saty
I admit that lifeless dried up limbs are
worthless. and may as we'll be cut of; and
50 may the eatire treesas we'll be burned at
once, unless they can be planted when their
branches contain the elements of life in full
for expansion, and energetic co.
operation with the new rootlets that can snly
be formed BY the powerfully concentrated as
sistance Of those buds and young leaflets, of
which We are told to divest the trees (is part
at least) before planting them.
But lest 1 become tedious, 4nust stop
here, and in future communication | will
give my views in reference to How and
When to Pruns Fruit TroeS and How to
Avesd Excessive Pruning together with
some directions for the management of trees
atter they are transplanted. >,
w. w. BEEBEE
Dubuque Nurseries, Iowa, March 22h 1861.
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