PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING : Page 90

After trees are planted guy wires should be set to prevent windstorms from bending or tipping the trees over. It is never a safepractice to transplant any large tree without supporting it with wiresThe reason for attaching guy wires to newly transplanted trees is two-fold. First, to be sure that the tree does not blow over during a severewindstorm, and second, to keep the tree from swaying without blowingover and thereby loosening the root system and letting air get into thesoil around the roots. This second reason for guying trees is an im-portant one, and is sufficient in itself to require a very careful tight-ening of the wires which hold the trees in place. In placing guy'wires on the trunk it should be protected from injury by the useof pieces of hose, bagging, or canvas.