TRANSPLANTING THE APPLE IN THE NORTHWEST. 4II 



Answers: 



a. Clay loam — clay subsoil. 



b. Any soil fit for corn with a clay subsoil. 



c. Probably clay, but cultivation is more important. 



d. Clay loams on high lands, with limestone foundation which 

 retains water. 



e. Clay or limestone subsoil ; top soil of little moment. 



f. Rich loam with a yellow clay subsoil. 



g. Light clay loam with limestone subsoil. 



h. Yellow clay loam with stiff clay subsoil, underlaid with lime 

 rock, if possible, on ground not nearer than six feet of surface. 



i. Clayey loam with a clay subsoil ; if subsoil is hard have it 

 broken up with a good subsoil plow. 



j. Clay, with blue clay subsoil. 



k. Rich black soil, with clay subsoil. 



1. Sandy loam, clay subsoil one foot from the surface. 



m. Clay loam, with open clay subsoil. 



n. A good loam, with clay subsoil, is best, but I find I can make 

 sand and clay work well. 



0. Surface soil a rich, heavy soil, inclined to clay ; subsoil much 

 the same, but with enough sand to give drainage. 



p. Clay loam, gravelly clay, 

 q. Clay loam, gravelly clay. 



4. Question: Best time to dig the trees for the orchard? 

 ANSWERS : 



a. Fall. 



b. In spring as soon as the frost is out of the ground. 



c. When the frost is out of the ground in spring. 



d. When needed to plant. If dug in the fall, should be root- 

 pruned and buried. 



e. Fall in this climate. 



f. As soon as weather will permit in the spring. 



g. When ready to plant in spring. 



h. Latter part of October or first of November, after one or 

 two hard frosts to kill leaves, and all leaves stripped from trees 

 before or at time of digging. 



i. In the fall when dormant, just before the ground freezes up. 



j. Fall. 



k. In fall, late as practicable. 



1. Dig in the fall. After a mild winter trees will do well dug 

 in the spring. 



m. Just before you set them, or when you can. Fall before 

 setting is a good time. 



n. I like a fall dug tree best. 



o. Dig trees the last thing in the fall before freezing up, or soon 

 after the leaves fall. 



p. As early in fall as practicable after severe frost has checked 

 growth. 



q. In the fall. 



5. Question: Best way to keep the trees till planting? 



