Show Setting Out Trees and Shrubs Now is the time to to set out trees and shrubs In setting any plant of this kind in a new location it is necessary for the hol hole to be large enough t tallow to allow the roots to be spread out The soil should be work worked d around the roots as every space under them will mean just that amount of idle root Too many empty spaces under the roots mean a dead tree or shrub When the earth is filled in it should be tramped in as firmly as possible It Jt is sometimes some times Umes desirable to wet down the soil to make it pack more firmly The soil particles must be forced against the roots to enable the soil water to be carried to them through the action of capillary attraction Many of the failures failures fail fan ures in transplanting come from permitting permitting per per- the soil to lie too lightly over the roots |