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are lifted and that tney be immediately transferred to planting 

 baskets in which there are several double layers of burlap padded 

 with damp moss. The trees are arranged in layers between the 

 pads of burlap, thus keeping them adequately moist until planted. 

 The trees should not be puddled or placed in pails or tubs of water, 

 as it washes the fine particles of soil from the roots and severely 

 injures the smaller rootlets. The soil which naturally adheres 

 to the small rootlets when kept moist after the plants are lifted 

 effects a close contact between the roots and the new soil when 

 the trees are planted. 



When the planting site is near the nursery the work should be 

 so organized, particularly when climatic conditions are unfavor- 

 able, that the stock can be planted the same day or the day 

 following its removal from the nursery. 



It should be the practice in every forest nursery to prick out 

 1- and 2-year coniferous seedlings the same day they are lifted from 

 the seedbeds. By a proper organization of the lifting and trans- 

 planting crews, when all of the work is conducted in the same 

 or nearby nurseries, there is need for only a few hours to intervene 

 between the lifting and transplanting. When 1-year conifers 

 are lifted several weeks before transplanting and subjected to the 

 ordinary methods of transport and heeling-in they invariably 

 show a marked depreciation in vitality and growing power. 

 One workman will ordinarily lift 1- or 2-year coniferous seed- 

 lings from fully stocked seedbeds as rapidly as 14 men can 

 transplant. 



The number of years that forest nursery stock remains in the 

 seedbed and in the transplant bed, and the number of times 

 transplanted are usually expressed by figures following the name 

 of the species. Thus, white pine (1-0) signifies 1-year white pine 

 seedlings; white pine (2-0), 2-year seedlings; white pine (1-1), 

 2-year plants, 1 year in the seedbed and 1 year in the transplant 

 bed; white pine (2-1), 3-year plants 2 years in the seedbed and 1 

 year in the transplant bed; and white pine (2-1-1), 4-year plants 

 2 years in the seedbed and twice transplanted. The sum of the 

 figures equals the age of the stock. 



The following table gives the species and classes of coniferous 

 stock most largely grown for forest planting in the different 

 forest regions in the United States. 



