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TRANSPLANTING NUT TREES 

 Willard G. Bijchy, Baldzcin, N. Y. 



When I set out the first nut trees which now are growing at my 

 place at Baldwin, I was very particuLar to follow the best advice ob- 

 tainable. What this was is to be found in Bulletin No. 5, published by 

 the association, pages 8 and 9, under Planting Directions. I will not 

 take time here to read them but will fefer those interested to that 

 publication. 



Much tliat is to be found there is unquestionably the best practice 

 that we know today. The importance of ])reventing the roots from 

 drying! out. digging holes of sufficient size and filling with good top 

 soil, firming the soil well about the roots, severely catting back after 

 planting and staking newly set trees if they are of appreciable size 

 above ground, are of the utmost importance and should be emjjhasized, 

 but others of these directions have been modified in my practice and 

 I will relate the unfortunate experiences which caused these changes 

 to be made. 



From the start there has been trouble in transplanting hickories, 

 difficulties with other trees being small in comparison. Out of a num- 

 ber of fine looking little grafted hickories set out in the fall or spring 

 some would be sure to die. They mostly came from Mr. Jones, who, 

 as a rule, has furnished the finest looking hickories that I have received, 

 and were finely packed and seemingly ought to have lived, but only 

 part of tliem did. After loosing a number out of one lot, I watched 

 the lot purchased next year with particular care. Three out of a lot 

 of six, which had put out leaves well in the spring, by the middle of 

 July began to show signs of distress, the edges of the leaves beginning 

 to turn brown whicli the year previous had been the beginning of the 

 end. I knew what had happened the year previous, felt that the trees 

 Avould die if something was not done, and did something. That some- 

 thing was to dig about six quarts of chicken manure and two trowels of 

 nitrate of soda around the three trees that looked sick and saw that 

 they were watered plentifully till a heavy rain came. At first nothing 

 was noticed, but after a while the brown disappeared on the leaves 

 that were only slightly brown, while in other cases new leaves put out 

 and finallv a second growth of shoots, very small to be sure, but the 



