The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-12-03

TRANsPLANTING. = When ready for
transplanting, the grounds prepared by
digging broad ditch the whole length
Of the proposed line OF trees, taking care
to break the earth as deeply and widely
as possible to give free passage for
warmth and moisture, and clearing OF
any stones or large pebbles. The plants
are removed from the nursery or case,
with the mass ofEdirt adhering to their
roots, and set in the earth nine or ten
inches deep. Care should be taken at the
same time to separate and spread any
roots too closely grouped together, or
tending too much inward OF downward.
In refilling in and around the roots ma
nureshould be used literally, and aslight
elevation of earth raised around the spot
to retain water. The plants are some
times grated before the transfer, some
times only q year or two after. Each
plant should have about twenty five
square yards of open ground around it
in these intervening spaces, however,
small shoots are sometimes cultivated
for sale or transplantation, but in all
cases the earth should be we'll spaded
during the first year at least. looping the
roots which come too near the surface.
The young trees are sheltered during the
winter, and the, ration OF manure for
each is prepared beforehand and placed
under cover near it for protection from
cold, to be we'll worked into the ground
with the first spading, which takes place
at the commencement of vegetation in
spring.
At the same time the tree should be
pruned of it's dried or weakly branches
and leaves, which would become points
of attack for mildew or insects, as well
as to maintain it's compact and advan-
tageous form, and this cleaning opera
ton, after being carefully attended as
soon as the advancing season offers some
security against returns of cold, should
be renewed towards the LIST Of July, when
the first period OF vegetation has we'll
marked the relative igor and promise of
the young shoots.
The plants should be watered accord
ing to the requirements of the season,
using for the purpose water from which
the chill has been removed by standing
in the sun. This is done here mostly by
hand with the simple old-fashioned wa
tering pot.
Where the plants are kept in pots Or
cases, here as elsewhere, they. are more
for ornament than profit, and in this case
the filling is entirely of manure, and
should be renewed every three years. At
certain stage of growth, also, it is nee
essary to transfer the plant to larger
recipient, though one change of the kind
is generally sufficient, case of two to
two and one-half feet in diameter being
large enough for it at almost any age
The operation should not be executed
without due precautiOn. The plant, en-
veloped in cloths or rags, and lifted gent
ly by ropes and pulleys, should suffer no
violence; while suspended, the smaller
and too extended filaments of root
trimmed away, and lowered with it's mass
of earth undisturbed into it's new recep-
tacle on a stratum OF fine gravel prepared
for it, the empty spaces filed as before
with manure and loan we'll worked into
the roots. The plant should then stand
in the shade for about eight days, guard
ed, as far as possible, from sudden
changes of temperature, and copiously
Watered, admitting, however, the exter-
nal air ifin green. house, when the weather
permits it.
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