"One of the most frequent mistakes made in planting trees of any size is in burying the roots too deeply. If trees that have grown naturally from seed are examined, it will always be found that the place where the uppermost roots push from the stem is about the level of the ground, and this is what must be aimed at with planted ones. The normal buttressed base of a trunk is due chiefly to the thickening of its big main roots. The stems and bark of most trees are intended by nature to be in free air, and when buried even in a few inches in the earth perpetual darkness and damp frequently cause a ring of buried bark to rot. In light sandy soil the danger is not so great, but in heavy clayey soil it must be strictly guarded against."
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William Jackson Bean
(26 May 1863 – 19 April 1947) was an English , , and curator of from 1922 to 1929.
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