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per cent, one year old trees planted in the nursery row or in the orchard 

 will live, that forty per cent, two and three year olds, under the same 

 conditions, will die. Further, it is a tree that ought not to be planted deep. 

 We plant* it shallow. He recommended sandy and tolerably low land. 

 That we can not all have, but in a clay soil, I think shallow planting is 

 the best for the cherry, as it is not naturally a deep rooter, and it makes 

 a hardier and longer lived tree, and you also avoid danger of sprouting 

 when planted shallow. The cultivated stock, that is, if planted deep, 

 will sprout from the roots and in a short time you will have a thicket of 

 cherry sprouts. The Mahaleb does not sprout from its own root. 



Mr. Custer: Some twenty-five or- thirty years ago I set out an 

 orchard of one hundred and fifty, trees, most on Mahaleb stock, and as 

 long as they were on Mahaleb stock they did not send up any sprouts, 

 but some were set deep and on their own roots, and what I have now 

 are nearly all on their own roots. I think they are much healthier and 

 longer lived than on Mahaleb stock. Nearly all the Mahalebs have passed 

 away long ago. 



Mr. Campbell: My experience in setting trees is limited, but I seldom 

 fail in having a tree to grow if I set it myself, with the exception of the 

 cherry tree; I can not get them to grow, about half of them die. I have 

 laid the blame on the nurserymen. Every cherry tree I have ever bought 

 from the nursery the roots have been terribly mutilated. Why do nursery- 

 men mutilate the roots when taking up these trees more so than any 

 other trees? Will some nurseryman present tell me why they do so? 



Mr. Hobbs: Mr. Campbell does not approve of the method of pruning, 

 where they take all the roots off and start with main cuttings. 



Mr. Campbell: In setting cherry trees I have always aimed to set 

 them about as they were in the nursery. Whether I am right in that I 

 do not know. 



Mr. Hobbs: My observation and experience in handling and trans- 

 planting the cherry is that it is the most sensitive tree that I know, after 

 buds of the cherry have expanded. If planted when dormant, and in 

 good condition every one ought to grow. I think Mr. Henby has well 

 said that you will succeed in getting a better stand in planting one year 

 old trees. 



Mr. Shoemaker: What is the Mahaleb and Myi'obolan and what 

 varieties are grafted on Myrobolan and Mahaleb? What is the rule? 



Mr. Hobbs: Myrobolan plum stock is a native of Persia and it is one 

 of the varieties of plum that does not sprout from the root. Little 

 tender here, that is, trees are not as hardy as ordinary varities of plums 

 in regard to cold winter killing. It makes a pretty good stock for working 



