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percolate into the soil where the roots of the plant are rove red. <br />• Once the planting is completed the shrub or tree is watered. <br />The amount of water varies with the size of the plant, but should be <br />enough to fully saturate the soil. After the water has seeped into <br />the medium the soil should once again be compacted with a foot to <br />insure as much of the air voids are removed as possible. This serves <br />to achieve maximum root-soil contact. <br />Depending upon the condition, size and type of plant it would <br />then be pruned to remove all dead branches, weak branches, and to <br />reduce the top growth sufficiently to allow the root system to <br />develop without undue stress to supply prodigious quantities of water <br />to the food producing structures. This pruning is essential to <br />achieving maximum success in establishment and would be done by a <br />~ • qualified or trained individual to insure it is done properly. <br />Containerized plants would be planted essentially the <br />same way except the containers would, of course, be removed prior <br />to planting. Guy wire support may be needed on large trees, <br />but it is not expected such large trees would be used. The cost <br />for large plants is very high and the rate of success in transplanting <br />to such a different medium would be anticipated to be rath=_r low. <br />Smaller plants are somewhat more flexible in their require.nents, their <br />cost is low and the vigor of the plants as they adapt is usually <br />much higher. <br />• <br />5-E-18* <br />