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label each variety, pack away in the cellar in sawdust. We are then 

 ready for grafting, which is fine work for the nurseryman during the 

 ODld weather. Our grafts are made and packed away in boxes with 

 sawdust to callous, and by spring are all knit together and buds swollen 

 ready to push out. The land must be good and well drained, not too 

 rolling, that will grow a good jSTo. 1 crop of corn. Plow it deep late in 

 the fall and rebreak it in the spring as soon as it will do to work. Pul- 

 verize it fine and you are ready for planting grafts. Mark off the 

 ground with a line in rows three feet, eight inches wide, plant mth 

 steel dibbles eight inches apart in row, making each plant firm in the 

 ground, put stake to each kind, marking plainly the name of each 

 variety. The cultivation must now begin, which is the main thing in 

 the nursery business. As soon as our planting is completed we start 

 the Planet Jr. Cultivator. Stirring the ground shallow every few days, 

 and allowing no young weeds to start, and as soon as the rows begin to 

 show a few weeds, we throw the dirt away with a small diamond plow, 

 leaving a three to four inch strip which we work out by hand, being 

 careful not to loosen a single plant. You must also run the diamond 

 plow very shallow. In a short time the cultivator must go over again 

 and level the ground. Keep the cultivator going, and when ever the 

 rows need w^orking, use the small diamond and the hand work, or if 

 you find it too hard on the hand use hoes, being careful at all times 

 not to loosen the young plants. Continue the cultivation up to the 

 middle or last of August, then hill them up Avith the disc cultivator for 

 the winter. The next spring stir the ground deep as soon as it Avill 

 do and if cloddy, run over it every few days until you get it thoroughly 

 pulverized. When ready to hoe throw away the dirt with the small 

 plow and hoe, leveling off in a few days with the cnltivntor, the work 

 must be continued and not a weed allowed to grow. Keep the culti- 

 vator going and do not allow the growth to stop until you are ready, say 

 the last of August. This will bring vou trees in October, readv for 

 market. 



PRUNING. 



The first season there is l)ut little pruning done, until late in the 

 fall or carlv the next sprinc- Trim each vouno- tree to a straight 



