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SEEDING AND PLANTING 



FIG. 106. 



a. Yellow pine killed from crowding its roots into a shallow planting 

 hole. 



b. Yellow pine in the same plantation in good condition and tap-root re- 

 established. Planted in deeper hole. 



ing trees with large roots into shallow holes. In such cases the 

 roots are bent to one side and the tree rises obliquely from one 

 side of the planting hole (Fig. 106). The hole should be deep 

 enough for the tap-root to hang vertically downward and wide enough 

 to give as much spread to the lateral roots as economic planting will 

 permit. 



