Hand-Book of Tree-Planting : Or, Why to Plant, Where to Plant, What to Plant, How to Plant
The book Hand-Book of Tree-Planting : Or, Why to Plant, Where to Plant, What to Plant, How to Plant was written by author Carl A. Schenck Collection (North Carolina State University). Ncrs Here you can read free online of Hand-Book of Tree-Planting : Or, Why to Plant, Where to Plant, What to Plant, How to Plant book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Hand-Book of Tree-Planting : Or, Why to Plant, Where to Plant, What to Plant, How to Plant a good or bad book?
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But no successful stock-raiser, no one worthy to be considered as a stock-raiser, feeds his animals in that way. So a human child will possibly live and maintain a feeble existence upon slop milk or when the diet is defective in quality and insufficient in quantity, though many drop off and die from such causes. Now, the soil is the source of the tree's nour- ishment. The roots of the tree are its mouths — or, more properly, its mouths are in its roots. What we call the roots are, in part, only... a me- chanical contrivance by which the tree is held in an upright position — a brace, so to speak. But these underground arms branch off into fin- gers innumerable, which are covered with hairs or rootlets, somewhat as our own fingers are. In these are the mouths of the tree, so small as to be invisible. It is clearly impossible, there- HOW TO PLANT. 87 fore, that any food should enter these mouths except in a fluid state, either liquid or gaseous. The soil ministers to the life of the tree planted in it, only as the plant-food contained in the soil is dissolved, so that it can be ab- sorbed by the minute mouths of the roots.
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