W. F. Fletcher Native Persimmon

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The development of the persimmon, whether for orchard or orna mental purposes, has been retarded by the difficulty encountered in propagating and transplanting it. One grower has characterized it as the only tree that he could not kill in his cultivated fields and the only one that he could not make live in his garden. Failure in transplanting is usually due to a lack of knowledge concerning the characteristic root development of the persimmon. Under natural conditions, the roots penetrate much deeper into the soil than those of most other fruit trees, and unless great care is exercised when the tree is taken up it is almost impossible to get more than a'small percentage of the root system, thus reducing the chance of making the tree live when transplanted. From time to time valuable trees have been discovered, cared for, and even in some cases transplanted or propagated. Most of these have been soon neglected or destroyed, until there are comparatively few varieties of marked value available for general distribution.