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SOME DUriES WHICH THE NURSERYMEN OWE TO THE 



GENERAL PUBLIC. 



BY W. H. FREEMAN. 



[No copy of this paper was obtained, but a clipping from Orange Judd 

 Farmer is here given.] ' 



W. H. Freeman told of some of the duties which nurserymen owe to 

 the general public. Among others was the necessity for establishing a 

 better sentiment of general honesty and thus gaining the conhdence of 

 the public which has in a measure been lost through misrepresentations 

 by unscrupulous parties. He objected in strong language to the extensive 

 advertising and planting of Carolina poplars. He argued for the planting 

 of windbrealis for orchards and closer planting for better protection from 

 storms and sun. He also stated that forest planting had become impera- 

 tive and urged nurserymen to prepare to meet the demand for native forest 

 trees which is already here. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Cox: I would lilie to l^now why a tree set in fall and rounded 

 up with dirt won't grow just as well as heeled in and set in spring? 

 My experience is, the best time* is to plant in the fall, and get it out 

 of the way for spring worli. 



Mr. Freeman: Trees planted in the fall and rounded in carefully 

 may do just as well as planted in spring, but the chances are against 

 them, as they do not get good root-hold and the spring climate and winds 

 of winter evaporate moisture from the limbs. If planted in the spring 

 the root-hold is sufficient to keep up moisture circulation all winter and 

 overcome them. I am not saying that fall planting is not good, but 

 that spring planting is better. 



Mr. Little: If I were to plant any hardy trees preference would be 

 to fall. You know greenhouse men encourage roots by heat. A cutting 

 is full of material growth, and does not have power to make root. Direct 

 it down and cause it to make roots, and then it has something to sustain 

 it. All men who propagate cuttings know this is a fact. Plant a tree 

 in the fall and round it up and in the spring level it down. The earth 

 has a certain amount -of heat in it, and the roots are down where they 

 receive this heat, and in spring when the weather gets warm the roots 

 start. If j^ou plant a tree properly in the fall it certainly will make twice 

 the growth the following season and is much surer to grow than a tree 

 planted in the spring. 



