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have purchased tulips or other fall bulbs they should be planted 

 as soon as received, v^^hich should always be in the fall. 



It is probablv useless to say that strawberries and evergreens 

 should never be delivered in the fall. 



As soon as your stock arrives from the nursery, care for it 

 at once. A great many trees will stand considerable abuse, but there 

 is often too much delay in getting trees in the ground, both in fall 

 and spring. Thev may grow, but it is reasonable to think that 

 they often lose a great deal of vitality by poor handling. If a 

 tree or shrub is worth a place in your orchard or on your lawn, it 

 certainly pays to give it good care before planting as well as after. 



The Chairman : T think we ought to applaud th^t paoer. 

 That is certainly a subject that we ought to discuss. The best 

 method of delivering nurserv stock in the autumn, and we can 

 touch upon the stock that should be delivered in the autumn. That 

 is a good subject to discuss. 



Mr. C. C. Hunter : T would like to ask Mr. "Mitchell whether 

 he has had experience setting out trees in the fall? 



Mr. Mitchell : T have seen anple trees planted in the fall, but 

 T do not think it navs. T don't think it is the preferable time of plant- 

 ing. I think they should be planted in the spring. 



The Chairman : Give us your views on the sulbject, Mr. 

 Hunter. 



Mr. Hunter : If a man puts in an order in the fall for planting 

 in the sprino". he is sfoing to have a lot of extra work to keep them 

 and then set them in the sprinq". It saves a p'r^at deal of extra 

 work to plant them in the sprin"-. T- have sold trees, and T have 

 recommended plantinsr in the fall. A lot of the trees will die if 

 thev are not heeled in rip'ht. A ereat manv farmers will simplv 

 die any kind of a hole and heel them in. but thev will not take 

 the time to do it rieht. T have seen whole bimdles of trees heeled 

 in that stood up straip'ht : that is not the wav to heel them in. Mv 

 advice is to buv the trees and set them out where they are to grow. 



Mr. Geo. H. Whitino- (S. D.) : T want to say a word in resrard 

 to fall deliverv. T don't believe there should be anv fall deliverv 

 at all. I think we ought to discouraee that idea entirely. Tt is 

 to the interest of the nurseryman as well as the planter to have 

 no fall delivery at all. T think the proper idea or the proper wav 

 to handle nursery stock is for the nurseryman to eet his stock to- 

 gether in eood season in the fall and put it in a eood storage house 

 and then be ready to deliver it in the spring at the time the planter 

 wants it. T believe stored stock is better than stock left outside. 

 T am satisfied upon that point. If you have the proper storage 

 house vour stock can be carried through in better shape than when 

 planted or heeled in. There is not one farmer in ten scarcely that 



