360 State Horticultural Society. 



be cut back now. Injured nursery stock, properly cut back just after 

 the freeze and planted in our forcing house for experiment, has already 

 made six or eight inches of new gro^\'th to each branch. — J. C. Whitten, 

 in Rural World; Horticulturist, Mo. Exp. Station. 



SETTING OUT PEACH TEEES. 



After the ground is put in the proper shape to receive the trees I 



take a two-horse plow and set a stake at the opposite end, where the row 

 is to be; next, measure from where I started in for the next row; have a 

 good steady team and plow straight to the first stake ; then measure off the 

 next row to come back on and keep on so until you get each row marked 

 wdth one furrow. 



When this is done plow another furrow, throwing it the opposite 

 from the first. This Avill make quite a ditch, or dead furrow, as we 

 often call them. Then take what we call a winged shovel plow and a 

 large steady horse and trace each furrow. This will make a place deep 

 enough and wide enough for the trees. ISText, mark it crosswise by draw- 

 ing a chain across the furrow^s. This will make a mark sufficiently 

 plain to designate where the tree is to be set. 



The field being prepared, take a few trees in your arm at a time — 

 not many, as the -wind and sun will dry them out too much — and have a 

 man to assist you. Step up to the cross in the furrow and let the assistant 

 hoe enough dirt in the ditch at the cross to make it the right depth to set 

 the tree, and while he is making this preparation you keep your shears 

 in hand and prepare the tree, by cutting off all but a few limbs. Cut 

 the limbs that remain from one-half to two-thirds off and cut the roots 

 off quite short.' Then set them in the prepared bed, and hoe enough 

 dirt on them to cover the roots, shaking the tree up and down so as to 

 sift dirt between the roots. Tramp the dirt as solid as you can and hoe 

 a small hill of dirt on the solid dirt around the tree and leave that loose. 



When all the trees are thus treated straddle each row with a double 

 tender \x\\\\ large shovels on and throw the ditch full. The planting is 

 then complete for small trees. If the trees are too large for double 

 tender, take a shovel plow and one horse. 



