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trees had been saved. This was diametrically opposed to previous 

 practice of putting no manure or strong fertilizer in holes when plant- 

 ing the trees, but the result was so satisfactorj- that I have continued 

 to dig in about -4- of a wheelbarrow of well rotted stable manure around 

 each tree when planting and two trowels of nitrate of soda in May 

 when the growth should start in the spring. 



The above treatment seemed almost entirely to solve the difficul- 

 ties of transplanting and for about two years practically no liickories 

 were lost. Twenty- four Hales trees, 10 years from grafting brought 

 here from Monticello, Florida, all lived through the first year and 23 

 of them through the second and now seemingly have a long life ahead 

 of them. Inasmuch as Mr. Jones expressed his doubts as to how suc- 

 cessful this experiment would be I regarded it as somewhat of a 

 triumph. On the other hand out of the finest looking lot of young 

 Iowa hickories grafted a j-ear ago this spring and shipped in the fall 

 and set out just as carefully as I knew how, with well rotted stable 

 manure in the holes and seemingly having every prospect of a long 

 life before them, all have died now, excepting four, two of which I am 

 making desperate efforts to save. 



The reason for this failure has not yet been proved, but I have an 

 idea what it is. With two excej^tions the stocks were not large, un- 

 usually small in fact, and the growth of the grafts was small, but, 

 except for their small size of stock and graft they were fine looking 

 little hickories as one often sees. The two that are in good condition 

 today were bitternuts on bitternut stocks and both the stocks and 

 grafts were notably larger than others. One of these bitternuts by 

 the way, is bearing this year. Evidently there was not as much vital- 

 ity stored in the smaller trees as in the larger ones. I am inclined 

 to believe that the real trouble was because the grafts, excepting the 

 bitternuts, had not become sufficiently established before having to 

 stand the shock of digging, shipping and transplanting. I have noticed 

 in experiments made to determine the adaptabilit}' of a number of 

 species of hickory as stocks that it was not unusual to find that a 

 graft would do reasonablv well the first summer and die the second. 

 If this happens occasionally when hickories have not been transplanted 

 it is undoubtedly very much more likely to happen when they are trans- 

 planted. I have- had practically no losses in transplanting hickories 

 when the graft had grown two seasons before being transplanted. 

 The safe plan, then, would seem to be to let a graft grow two sea- 



