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Show FAILURES IN TREE PLANTING Mny May Be Avoided if Tops Are Trimmed Back to Correspond With Roots. Trees should be cut back when trans-Planted. trans-Planted. In digging the tree the great-ej" great-ej" length of each root is usually cut " leaving the tree with only stub roots. If the whole top' is left on, so many leaves are' produced that they wl" "eed more moisture than the stub ro"ts can supply. Many failures in tree Planting will be avoided if the tops "re cut hack to correspond to the way Me roots are cut off. |