150 AGRICULTURE FOR COMMON SCHOOLS 



He wants good flavor rather than size and handsome 

 appearance. 



It is best to get trees from a home nursery if such is to be 

 found. The buyer can go there after his trees and will be 

 more certain of getting the varieties which he wants. He can 

 also select the size of trees desired. Trees obtained from a 

 home nursery will be better adapted to the climate than those 

 obtained from a distance. If no home nursery is to be reached, 

 one must buy from nurseries at a distance. The most reliable 

 rather than the cheapest one should be patronized. It is best 

 to buy northern grown trees. Trees one or two years old are 

 to be preferred. They do not yet have very large tops and the 

 grower can shape the tops to suit. Young trees suffer less in 

 the transplanting and begin growing almost as though they 

 had not been moved. Trees four or five years old will lose 

 a year or more in recovering from the set-back due to cutting 

 off so many roots and so much top as is necessary in moving 

 them. 



Having selected the trees it is best to have them dug early 

 in the spring before growth begins and brought to the place 

 where they are to be transplanted. Here they should be 

 heeled in until time to reset. By heeling in is meant the cov- 

 ering of the roots of the young trees as they are bound together 

 in the bunch. One digs a shallow hole and puts in the entire 

 bunch of roots and covers them with soil. When buds have 

 begun to start on other fruit trees, the heeled-in trees can be 

 dug out and reset. It will be noticed that the cut ends of the 

 roots have begun to heal, or callous, over and young roots have 

 started. This condition is desirable, and such trees will grow 

 better than trees freshly dug and reset. 



In setting out trees in the houseyard or around buildings, 



