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and packed into a basket or box containing wet sand, moss, 

 burlap or some similar substance. (Fig. 31.) 



In case the planting is done sometime after the seed- 

 lings are taken from the seed-beds, these bundles of seed- 



FIG. 32. Seedlings heeled-in awaiting planting or shipment. 



lings should be carefully heeled-in. The process of heeling- 

 in consists of planting the bundles of seedlings in a solid 

 row in a trench deep enough to receive the bundles up to 

 where the leaves begin, packing the bundles in very firmly 

 and tramping the soil around them with the heel so as to 



