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she. The directions say to plant the tree as deep as it was in the nursery. 

 '"Yes, but yours is a clay soil and if you put the roots of the tree down 

 in that cold clay the tree will starve to death before it is able to draw any 

 nutrition from the soil." Keep the roots of the trees near the surface, 

 <;over with the top soil and get them started and when a good growth 

 of leaves is made the roots will take care of themselves. 



Xo man will grow trees or berries long without fertilizing. The 

 cow in the orchard is worse than a night raid of neighborhood boys 

 in a watermelon patch ; but on the outside, well cared for and well fed 

 will turn you many a penny from the pail, butter your bread, furnish the 

 <lelicious cream for your peaches and strawberries, to say nothing about 

 -furnishing fertility to keep up their growth. 



THE EVERGREEX AXD ITS USEFULXESS. 

 (By F. C. Meyers, Greenfield, Mo.) 



The everygreen deserves more attention than it gets. It is too much 

 overlooked by our fruit growers and farmers. Here in Southwest Mis- 

 souri I find the evergreen very useful. A row of evergreens on the 

 south and west side of an orchard would break the southwest wind, as a 

 few days of such a wind in winter or early spring causes the sap to start 

 and then a sharp cold snap weakens the vitality of the fruit buds and some- 

 times kills them. In the fall we have more or less of hard, dry south- 

 west winds that blow for several days and causes lots of the finest fruit 

 to fall off the trees, and a wind break on the south and west would pre- 

 v^ent largely that. A hedge or row of evergreens on the west and north 

 side of the small fruit would be a protection from the cold and bleak 

 Avinds in early spring. 



To the farmer the evergreens are very useful as a shelter for live 

 stock, his orchard and to hide unsightly objects from public view. 



The \\'hite pine is the best of all the pines for wind breaks. Scotch 



pine next. Austrian or black pine and the Tennessee are very good, as 



they will stand considerable weather and are good for wind break. The 



Douglas and Blue spruce are the most hardy as to drouth and cold. X^ext 



to the American White spruce. 



Of the firs the long leaf of Colorado and the German silver stands 

 drouth best. The Chinese Arborvitae stands drouth well, but not cold. 

 The Siberian is very good. American Arborvitae best for wind break, 

 and in pyramidal form a beautiful lawn tree. All the Junipers stand 

 •drouth well. The English best for low wind break. 



