PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING : Page 95

Transplanting Nursery-grown Trees. Nursery trees are treeswhich have been grown under nursery conditions for at least two orthree years. The most desirable method of handling such trees is toball-and-burlap them, to lessen the danger of injury from trans-planting. This applies to small trees with well-developed rootsystems, and especially to those which have been so root pruned thatthe root spread is in a smaller, more compact area than that of theusual nursery tree. Holes for nursery trees should be excavated atleast one foot larger than the ball preserved with the tree. In otherwords, the roots of the tree should never be pruned to fit the hole inwhich the tree is to be planted and the roots should never be crowded.It is quite essential to place small guy wires, not less than three innumber, to each small nursery tree from two to five inches in diameter.This is especially necessary when trees are in exposed locations orstand alone as specimens.