Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1911 — HOW TO TRANSPLANT [ARTICLE]

HOW TO TRANSPLANT

In setting out 'ruit trees and transplanting plants in the gardec one ounce of intelligent observatioi will prove more valuable than a ton of theoretical literature. The nurseryman and gardener will transplant thousands of plants and cuttings without the loss of a single specimen while the average farmei will so bungle his work that aftei purchasing the best of fruit treea that havp excellent root systems h« does well if he succeeds in making one half of the trees reach ma turlty. The successful market gardenei will transplant acres of vegetable plants with the loss of scarcely a single plant. It is a simple truth, although ta some it may sound unreasonable that an experienced fruit grower oi grower of trees and shrubs will make a willow stake grow where the average man cannot successfully trans plant a young willow tree. It is the same with blackberriei and raspberries, few things are at tenacious of life as these plants yet how many farmers succeed la making them grow.