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during" the season, to fertilize them weH and to cut grass and 

 brush to throw around them as a mulch. As the trees started 

 to grow I became interested in another side of it, and I decided 

 to let them shift for themselves and try the original experiment 

 elsewhere. I therefore let most of those trees alone until June, 

 then hoed around them and gave each a small handful of fer- 

 tilizer. I will admit that I tried hard to kill them with neglect. 



Fig. 2. — First year's sjrowth. 



except a few which were handled as I agreed. Part of these 

 trees were Mountain Rose, which had put out their leaves 

 before we could plant them. We pruned these forward trees 

 as we did the others, and lost nearly all of them. I have since 

 learned that this entire root-pruning will not answer when the 

 trees are so far advanced. Of the trees with dormant buds, 

 not half a dozen died. They were slow to start, and sent out 

 shoots from the lower buds, ^^'e dug up thirty or more at 



