114 State Horticultural Society. 



wise plan to spread out the roots as the hole is being filled in, so as to try 

 and get them in as near the same position as they were before the re- 

 moval of the tree from the nursery. Keep your eye on the rammer; 

 never mind the fellow with the shovel; make the rammer ram and ram 

 and ram, but look out that he doesn't get his rammer to close to the trunk 

 of the tree and ram off the young, fibrous roots that the tree has to depend 

 on to make it a thing of joy forever. 



Never fill in the soil level at first; leave room for water. Have a 

 man follow the planters with the hose, and if not convenient to a hydrant, 

 then use the garden watering barrel, giving to each tree planted from 

 eight to ten quarts of water ; give them the same amount of water as soon 

 as the first watering has soaked through, and when the second watering 

 has soaked in then you are ready to put in the balance of your soil, and 

 the tree is planted. 



CARE AFTER PLANTING. 



Having planted our tree, the next thing to do is to mulch it with 

 manure, leaves, or any other kind of litter that will help keep the mois- 

 ture aroimd the roots. Under no circumstances, no matter how dry the 

 weather may be, should you give any more water to the roots, but that 

 does not mean that the tree can survive through a protracted hot, dry 

 spell. We have another method in hot or drying winds of supplying 

 moisture and that is syringing. Syringe m.orning noon and night, 

 syringe Sunday as well as week day, syringe the foliage as often as you 

 can, syringe it whenever you can. If you cannot reach your evergreens 

 with the hose, go around among them with the bucket, and the little green- 

 house syringe. No matter when you plant, spring or fall, keep the syringe 

 going until Thanksgiving. 



These are the methods which I adopt and I have planted more than 

 5,000 evergreens within the last -two years and our percentage of loss 

 has not been over two and one-half per cent. 



American Florist. 



SUGGESTIONS FOR TREE PLANTING FOR ARBOR DAY. 



(L. A. Goodman, Kansas City, Mo.) 



I. Selection of Trees. — Care should be taken in this selection that 

 they be not too large, loo old, too crooked or grown in too much shade. 

 Beautiful, young, symmetrical and well-grown trees should always be 

 selected. It is a great mistake to think a tree is not beautiful because it 

 is small or young. It is another mistake to think that you must have 



