PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING : Page 93

Fertilizing Newly Transplanted Trees. In transplantingtrees there is great danger that they may be over-fertilized. A treewhich has just been transplanted has suffered a severe shock to itsroot system. It is not in a condition to utilize a great quantity of food.It must be supplied with food slowly and only in such quantities as itcan readily take up through its root system. There is great danger ofover-stimulating newly transplanted trees at the time when their leavesare not sufficiently developed to digest the food which is supplied,and hence instead of forcing more growth in the tree, a conditionis apt to be brought about in the soil surrounding the roots and in thetree itself which retards growth instead of encouraging it. At thetime a tree is transplanted a normal amount of well-rotted manureshould be worked into the soil but not in direct contact with the roots.Not until the tree shows evident signs of regaining its normal vigourby developing leaves which are full size, and new wood of a normallength, should the tree be heavily fertilized. Such trees may be"tuned up" by feeding them with a mixed fertilizer of potash, driedblood, and bone meal. Such a fertilizer may be fed to trees during the