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will be ample. Or gather a couple of basketfuls of leaves or grass, dead or alive, and churn them into your loose soil as you refill and tamp the trench. Now, with your shears and pole-pruner, give the tree a going-over aloft to compensate for the feeders you carved off its bottom. Give it a year to grow a new, concentrated root-ball and your tree will be ready to go home with you. If it is much larger than a three-incher, take its preparation in two bites. This year trench only halfway around, in three equal sectors equally spaced. Next year dig the other three sectors, and take up the tree on your third visit, two years hence. (See Fig. 18.) |
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