%0 Journal Article %A D.K. Struve %A T.D. Sydnor %A R. Rideout %T Root System Configuration Affects Transplanting of Honeylocust and English OAK %D 1989 %R 10.48044/jauf.1989.029 %J Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) %P 129-134 %V 15 %N 6 %X Eight cm (approximately 3 inch) diameter Gleditsia triacanthos inermis‘Imperial’, Imperial honeylocust, and Quercus robur, English oak, were spring dug bare root and root pruned to one of four root configurations, standard, wide-deep, narrow-deep or wide-shallow, to simulate different ball sizes and shapes had the plants been balled and burlaped. The plants were placed in a healing-in area. Survival, leaf and shoot growth were followed for 18 months. All 40 honeylocust trees survived transplanting while three English oaks died. Honeylocust trees given the narrow-deep and wide-shallow root configurations had larger leaves and longer lateral shoots 18 months after transplanting than trees given standard and wide-deep configurations. English oak trees given wide-deep and wide-shallow root configurations had more shoot and leaf growth than did trees given standard or narrow-deep configurations. English oak recovered from transplanting more rapidly than did honeylocust. For both species, shoot and leaf growth during 1 986 were not significantly correlated with shoot and leaf growth in 1987. %U https://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/isa/15/6/129.full.pdf