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and the thing we want to do is to get them all and then take the one 

 that seems to best suit our conditions. 



Mr. Morrell — In regard to mounding only partially and setting peach 

 trees in the fall losing vitality — the tree should be banked as high as 

 you expect to see that tree grow the next year. A tree mounded half 

 w^ay up will be protected and this mounding can be taken down sometime 

 when the wind is in the south and not from the north. You want it to 

 dry off in a mild time, then it will go right along. 



Mr. King — I have enjoyed Mr. Morrell's talks — they come from a prac- 

 tical man — but it takes time and labor, too, to set that orchard and 

 what if you do not have the time to do it in the fall and attend to your 

 other work — we must sometimes be governed by circumstances. 



President Farrand — That must be done as you can — it is a matter of 

 your circumstance. I had thought that nursery stock should be put in 

 in the fall — at least our method of taking care of our nureery stock 

 is pretty nearly the same as mounding — we lay them down in some 

 sheltered spot and many times in the Avinter are completely covered Avith 

 snow and were right along in rows, one on top of the other, and the dirt 

 thrown over them, but the dirt comes nearly up to the tops of the trees. 

 If 3'ou get trees in that way there is no reason why you should not 

 have good results. But, as Mv. Kose says, when stored in cellars is where 

 the trouble comes. 



Mr. Morrell — This is a question of detail. In heeling in trees I leave 

 on all tops. When you heel in you furnish a harbor for mice. I have 

 found that the best way is to heel them in with evergreen, for mice will 

 not get into this to work. 



Question — At what time would you take these trees out of the nursery? 



President Farrand — I Avould dig them in October. 



Mr. Morton — What is the object of taking up the tree in the fall and 

 planting it again in the spring, when it Avould remain just as well in 

 its natural position? 



Mr. Morrell — The peach tree is liable to be killed, but the apple and 

 the pear I would not take up until spring. 



A Member — I would like to know whether the roots of the trees on 

 that knoll went down how far? 



AnsAver — They had gone doAxn fifteen or tAventy feet and the roots 

 Avere still there, I do not kuoAv how much farther they went. 



A Member — Why not plant on the sod? 



Mr. Bristol — I do not knoAv but you haA^e me stuck. It would make 

 some difference Avhat the site Avas and Avhat had been on there before. 

 In the first place you should have it pretty well fertilized, in eveiy par- 

 ticular point of gTound, and see that there are no weeds or Canada 

 thistles growing there before I set out the trees. 



A Member — Weeds are quite a good coA^er crop, better than no cover 

 crop at all, Ave usually get rid of the cover crop. 



Mr. Bristol— Well, I think myself that weeds make a pretty good 

 cover crop but on the soil that I am groAving an orchard on the weeds 

 would be shoulder high by the first of the year. 



