Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-04-09
How 10 Transplant Trees.

B Nature Indicates that most trees
shrubs, and plants will flourish most
satisfactorily, endure longer, and be
every way better when they send a
strong tap root deep into the ground.
And this fact is more particularly true
when the subsoil is porous, that long
tap root will readily strike downward,
sas far as the stem grows upward. Were
it not q habit of the tree or plant to
send down such tap root, it would be
advisable to cut it off. But many nur-
serymen will persist in cutting this
root OFF at all hazards; because they
say that ten roots will push out at the
end of the stump where the tapNroot
was severed, which will be more SER
viccable to the growing plant or tree,
than only one tap root.
I Those ten roots, it is true, will be
more advantageous in sustaining the
life of q tree, for two or three years,
5ong enough for sellers to get trees off
their hands, and get their money for
them, even by warranting every tree to
live one year. Most men think if they
can make tree live one year, the diff
icut.- is all over; they may now count
ON a 80 isfactory and successful growth.
But there never was principle more
erroneous. Every tree needs the ad-
vantage of long tap root, to go down
deep into the dry earth, and bring up
anoisture in dry weather, when the sur
face roots can not furnish one drop of
water to the growing plant. Therefore,
when tree, or bush, or vine is trans
planted, make deep and large hole
with long crowbar, four feet deep, put
the tap root into it, and fill the vacancy
with sand. IF there is no tap root,
bend down lateral root into the hole,
and encourage a tap root to strike deep
Ssnto the soil. We are seeing the SUI
perlative folly, all over our country, in
the failure of trees and vines, of all
kinds, cutting off the tap root.
ShreWd nurserymen have hoods
Minked and bamboozled farmers long
enough. by making them believe that
the tap root should be cut off. Nature
is more reliable guide than the in
sfructions of nurseryman, who can
sell more trees and make more money
by recommending practice that is
Numerically opposed to Natures Law.
The Herald has been reviewing the
history of the Republican party. What
fealerity Is there no one to pluck
this mad enthusiast aside, and counsel
him to forbear? Does he not know
Of what the people will think when
the history of the last decade is
brought to mind /? They will think of
a party that put on the glory of pat
riotism when the darkness of treason
had faiien upon the land They will
think of the strong arms that struck
for liberty, and the true hearts that
kept the faith They will think of
marches, vigils, famine and death, suf.
fered in the name of freedom. They
will think of the red sacrifice that
sprinkled the affairs of countless homes,
and made them sacred forever And
not this alone. They will remember
the vile attitude of the Democracy in
those shadowed days. They cannot
forget how that treacherous party
skulked in by-lanes and back alleys to
avoid the bright eye of loyalty, and
snarled irreconcilable hate. They will
remember how it hung upon the fanks
of the army, and worried the legions
of the flag. They will remember more
than we can portray in single para
graph. The history of the Republi.
can party is what the people want
give us-the history. Corvallis Gazette