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THE NEW FORESTRY. 



per thousand is about the average price 

 for trees from three to five years of age. 

 As has been said before, preparatory 

 transplanting in the nursery is of most 

 importance in the case of the conifera 

 species, because all of them are more 

 sensitive to removal than the broad-leaved 

 species that grow quickly, even after 

 transplanting, and may be cut down to 

 the ground without injury, while young 

 conifers cannot be so treated. Any com- 

 petent gardener or forester can tell, by 

 their appearance, if forest trees ha,ve been 

 transplanted as often as required, because 

 such trees are short and sturdy for their 

 age and much shorter jointed both in 

 stem and branch than trees of the same 

 age that have not been moved, and which 

 are usually tall and spindly, with long, 

 straggling roots. A Scotch fir, for 

 example, five years of age, that has never 

 been transplanted, will usually be twice 

 the height of one that has. Moreover, 

 there is a right and a wrong way of trans- 

 planting in the nursery that should be 

 here described for the benefit of the 

 planter. 



SECTION IX. NURSERY PREPARATION. 

 THE WRONG WAY. 



This method is, we believe, confined 

 to Great Britain, and is condemned by 

 Continental foresters as thoroughly bad 

 in principle. Whether the method 

 originated with the nurserymen or the 

 foresters we cannot say, but it is exten- 

 sively practised by both, and as it lends 

 itself to the bad " notch " system of 

 planting out, it may be favoured on that 

 account. Figures will best illustrate our 

 meaning as regards right and wrong Fig , . 0n eYe.r'5Seediin*. 

 methods of preparation. Figure I is a Corsican Fir. 



portrait of a one-year-old Corsican fir, and is fairly representa- 

 tive of the conifera generally, and hard-woods also. 



