Excerpt from Kansas Evergreen Nurseries, 1929: Specialists in Evergreens for the Great Plains Region

We have tested this in many ways. By way of experiment we have moved trees every month this summer without losing one. In July we sent a two-inch tree to Mr. J. Horace mcfarland, the eminent author and lecturer, at Harrisburg. Pa. In ten days he reported that the tree was actually budding. And two or three weeks later he wrote that it was in full growth. A nurseryman told us that by oversight he left some Chinese Elms out of the ground two or three days exposed to the weather, but planted them anyway just to see _what they would do. And to his surprise all of them grew. In Mr. Jones' letter, quoted before, notice the remarkable statement he makes about moving trees eight inches in diameter and 27 feet high, bare-rooted without even pruning them._and they both lived. The writer saw these trees a few weeks ago and they seemed to be doing well. In moving large trees bare-rooted even in the most favored climate it is necessary to prune the trees severely. Lubbock is on the plains of West Texas where trees do not transplant as well as they do in most other _localities. As far as the beauty of the tree is concerned both in foliage and form it is about all one could desire. In the above account several references have been made to its freedom from disease and insect pests. Our experience is that it is the healthiest tree we know of, and yet to give a faithful description of the tree we must say that_it dies wherever Texas cotton root rot is prevalent, that it does not thrive in low marshy la md. And we have occasionally seen the foliage affected with a fungus that causes the leaves to curl and turn brown. This however can be easily remedied with a spray of Bordeaux mixture. Chinese Elm should not be planted in land where cotton dies nor in wet places, but with these exceptions. They will grow on any kind of soil, and under the most adverse conditions. While the tree can stand neglect it is always best to cultivate it for the first season or two, and give it water occasionally in dry weather.

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