PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING : Page 94

year previous to the time that they are transplanted, in order to makethem more vigorous and better able to withstand the shock of trans-planting, or such a mixed fertilizer may be fed to the tree in small quan-tities, five to ten pounds to an average-sized tree (six to eight inchesin diameter) within the first year after the tree has been transplanted.Under no conditions should a newly transplanted tree be left on aneatly mowed lawn area without artificial methods being resorted tofor feeding it. The old saying, as quoted from Mr. Hicks, is that"Neatness is starvation." Nature provides a continual gathering ofleaves and grass which rots and makes fertilizer for the tree. When thegrass is kept closely clipped and the clippings taken away, and whenthe leaves are raked each fall, then this neatness deprives the tree of allof its possible source of food supply.