PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Struve, D.K. AU - Sydnor, T.D. AU - Rideout, R. TI - Root System Configuration Affects Transplanting of Honeylocust and English OAK AID - 10.48044/jauf.1989.029 DP - 1989 Jun 01 TA - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) PG - 129--134 VI - 15 IP - 6 4099 - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/15/6/129.short 4100 - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/15/6/129.full SO - JOA1989 Jun 01; 15 AB - 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.