Show I PLAXT SMALL TREES An experience of many years among trees leads me to say that there is no greater mistake than the planting of fruit trees of too large a size says Joseph Meehan in the Practical Farmer A large tree can be removed with tolerable success suc-cess if prepared for it by digging around it a season in advance and severing some of its roots But to expect to remove a largesized one and have it live and grow I as well as a smaller is out of the ques I tion I have seen many hundred pear trees of but three or four years old transplanted trans-planted and If they but held a few leaves far the first season it was deemed satisfactory satis-factory because there were so few roots to sustain them How then can a much larger tree with generally no more roots be expected to sustain a top two or three times larger than the other It has been proved over and over again by large planters that if two trees are transplanted transplant-ed one three years oM the other six years the smaller one will overtake the larger one in the course of five or six years This is because the larger tree having but few roots can not receive supply enough from them to enable it to make fresh shoots It may make enough to sustain a few leaves the first year but these few leaves will perfect the supply of food to give the roots a better start the year following But at is many years before the foliage and roots enough sufficient suffi-cient to cause the growth of fresh branches are produced In the meantime prouce metme the younger tree having lost but little a the greater part of the roots it had were dug up safely starts ait once a fresh growth There is no stopping with leaves only but fresh young sheets are produced as well I is not only able to sustain what branches it Mas but has food enuogh to spare t be able to enlarge en-large its size In the case of the larger tree in order to save its life a great deal of the top has to be cut off at the time of the removal or it will die But the younger one needs only a much pruning as will give it symmetry A cut I here and there for this purpose is enough Where it is a question of the saving of a large tree the case Is different but otherwise other-wise so far as fruit trees go i is wisdom to take a smallsized tree say not over six feet in height It often happens that when a new house 4s finished j is desired to place about it shade trees maples horsechestnuts or similar trees Now j although what has been said of fruit I trees applies equally as wel a to these there Is sometimes I a reason why a large maple tree should be planted A maple tree of six to eight feet in height would be lost near a large building One 20 feet is far more In keeping keep-ing with the surroundings Therefore although the hUe one wffl in time overtake I over-take the other yet the picture is more finished by the planting of the large one In such situation large trees should beGet be-Get I will be well in fact it should be done to go to the trees a season In advance ad-vance and prepare them by digging diggng about them as recommended |