arise from enow fungi, due to the retention of an ice-coating 

 over the beds, causing a chamber to form roofed by the ice 

 and grounded by the seed-bed. Little ia kno-wn about the 

 classification -nd control of such fungi, but certainly if 

 the large snovr acciaaulations are broken by shovelling or by 

 sprinkling black soil on the anow surface, the n el tin/? is 

 hastened, and the 1'cliage allowed to dry up before any nerious 

 damage is accomplished. 



During the second summer the cnre is 



limited, the beds are watered in tirr.c of drought, and kept free 

 of wsed.r. Lifting the following spring for transplant ing ie 

 done vith a wide-tootlied fork, fc'ir- pronged. A forkful la 

 seized, split, anc! the clinging dirt removed by knocking the 

 two handfuls together. The trees are either packed in boxes 

 vith damp inoEc or transported in pail a one-quarter full of water 

 to the transplant compartment e. 



Trajisplaatlnfc; and Transplants. 



Transplanting increases the crovm and 



root rtevelop.'ient of the plants . If they were to continue in 

 the need-beds, even if in rows, t v c root lengthens extremely 

 with three or four main "branches and a very Plight growth of 

 rootlets. The crown. is[aorc or lees spirctly, without the marked 

 Imtaral aJioots of Ch.a transpl:v".t. In lifting seedlings, the 

 roots are broken to soiae extent, and thus, when transplanted, 



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