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170 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. :: 
BOXING APPLE TREES. 
PROF. S. B. GREEN, ST. ANTHONY PARK. 
The cut shows a Duchess apple tree, with trunk protected with box to 
prevent sunscald and other injuries. A protecting box of this sort may be 
made of two six-inch and two eight-inch boards, which will make a box six 
inches square. Such boxes may be put on at any time. They should come 
A BOXED APPLE TREE. 
up above the crotches of the trees if practicable. Where this cannot be 
done without the limbs chafing against the top of the box, then a bunch of 
hay should be placed in the crotches of the trees on the approach of winter, 
as additional protection. I think ita good plan to fill such boxes with earth 
when they are put on. In something like eight years’ experience with these 
boxes, I have found that there is no necessity of taking them off, but that 
they can safely remain on the year round. Occasionally I have found a tree 
that hassentafew roots into the earth in the boxes, but this seldom happens. 
The advantage of this method of treatment is that it protects from sun- ' 
scald, from rabbits and mice, and from injury to the trunk by severe cold 
weather and in cultivation. Many of our trees that are quite severely injured 
in winter will recover if a considerable portion of the trunk is in best con- 
