

the grade this length must of necessity be reduced to permit 

 more perfect drainage. 



The bods are abutted against the side 



of the compartment, arid lined in by staking, Pathe eighteen 

 inches or two feet in width separate each, the soil removed 

 being thrown on the beds to crest them. This curvature in- 

 creases the soil evaporation, but decreases the action of other 

 damaging agents such as heaving. If the area ic v/ell-ciitchad 

 and the grade upward of two per cent, in ordinary porous soil, 

 the maximum convexing need not er.ceed three inches aboue the 

 path level. 



After a thorough raking, the c'r? tired 



contour having been obtained, the soil is packed by rolling with 

 a concaved roller the same width as the bed. V/hen an ordinary 

 garden tool is used, only one half of the bed surface in rolled 

 at a time, time maintaining the curve. Deeding, v/hich follows, 

 rc-.y be either broadcast or drill. In spruce beds, however, 

 due to the delicate nature of tiie individual seedlings, the loss 

 is likely to b heavy if the seed is drilled; however, in 

 broadcasting the seedlings are mutually supported. Danping-off 

 does not patch as it does in pine, but kills singly or in small 

 clumps; thus it is not necessary to isolate by rows to prevent 

 fungal dieeassa from spreading. As the lateral development of 

 spruce is much lese than that of pine due to the shortness of 



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