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the trees in the fall, and in that way it divides the work instead 

 of bringing it all together in the spring time. 



Mr. E. A. Smith : Is there a hardy class of stock that cannot 

 be safely planted in the fall? For instance, a nurseryman is 

 shipping a hardy class of seedlings, and they arrive in splendid 

 condition, is it not more satisfactory to plant them in tne fall rather 

 than heel them in and then take them out and plant them again in 

 the spring ? Would not the result be about as good as though they 

 were planted in the spring.? 



Mr. A. Brackett : There are some winters we have in Minne- 

 sota that will almost kill a tree standing in the nursery row. If 

 it is left standing there it will revive and grow, while if that tree 

 is dug up and part of the roots cut off and then planted 

 in the fall it will be a failure; and I do not believe there is a 

 nurseryman in the house if he were going to plant an orchard for 

 himself would prefer to have his trees dug in the fall and heeled 

 in and covered over and expect them to start right ahead. If 

 there is a nurseryman in the house that has had any experience of 

 that sort I would like to hear from him. 



Mr. Cole: I have had some experience in selHng nursery 

 stock and delivering it in the fall of the year, and there is very 

 little that fails provided the customer is properly instructed re- 

 garding the heeling in of the stock. That is where the principal 

 difficulty arises, the agent or nurseryman does not give the cus- 

 tomer proper instruction regarding the heeling in of the stock. I 

 give him a talk when selling the goods, and when delivering he gets 

 instruction in his own language. I tell him and show him how 

 it is done, and with my customers I have not seen many of them 

 fail with this fall delivery. I do not think there is any question 

 but that a man can deliver nursery stock in the fall if it is properly 

 heeled in, but I do not believe in planting in the fall. 



Mr. Older : I have had some experience in setting out trees 

 in the fall, in certain seasons they came all right, and some seasons 

 they killed back. I do not think it is so much in the care, it 

 depends altogether on the season. As Mr. Andrews says, trees 

 delivered in the fall, bent over and buried, each one by itself, is a 

 very nice way to take care of nursery stock. There is considerable 

 work connected with trees delivered in the fall and buried properly, 

 but they are absolutely safe. If they are properly buried, there 

 is no risk from mice, rabbits, freezing or anything else. In the 

 spring of the year everybody cannot get them before they are 

 started and put them in. The only advantage is that the farmer 

 has them on hand and can put them in- early, probably considerably 

 earlier than if received in the regular spring delivery. In my ex- 

 perience with currants and gooseberries it is all right to set them 

 out in the fall, early in the fall, but apple and plum trees and those 

 things that are semi-hardy at the best, setting them out i.. ^he fall 

 is altogether too risky on account of the climate. 



