Abstract
FOR purely horticultural purposes it is often required to remove trees and shrubs with a ball of earth for transference elsewhere, and considerable care and ingenuity must be exercised if success. is to be achieved. Mr. F. A. F. Schmid and Mr. F. J. Nutman, of the East African Agricultural Research Station, Amani, Tanganyika Territory, have described (Soil Science, 49, No. 6; June 1940) a method, devised by them during research on the water relations of coffee, for which they required large plants several years in age which could only be obtained in the field. The authors state that by their method a growing tree together with about two tons of soil has been successfully transplanted, and. that only the outbreak of war has prevented further excavations. There appears, it is said, to be no limit to the size of the soil block that can be isolated in this fashion save only the size of the vehicle available for transport.
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Excavation of Growing Trees with Earth. Nature 147, 741–742 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147741c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147741c0