lyo Care in Planting Trees 



"Heeling" them in deeply in a trench under shade and in 

 fresh soil, and drenching them thoroughly with water, keep- 

 ing them drenched for a day or two, or even keeping them 

 entirely submerged under water may restore what appeared 

 quite hopeless material. Even if the leaves of conifers have 

 suffered, so long as the buds are still fresh looking, the case 

 is not quite hopeless if proper care is applied in keeping 

 roots and tips moist, and especially if rainy weather 

 sets in. 



Even if the buds of conifers are started, they can be safely 

 transplanted, except the larch, which is sensitive in this 

 respect. Broad-leaved stock, arriving after the fohage is 

 out or with the buds started, is best stripped of its foli- 

 age or deprived of the most forward buds to prevent wilting, 

 and to give time for the roots to take hold before too much 

 demand is made on the water-supply. 



In forest planting, where thousands of small trees are set, 

 they are transported to the plant holes in a pail partly filled 

 with water (better than a loam puddle), and the larger 

 specimens should be similarly kept moist by various means 

 on their w^ay to the plant hole. 



The advantage of nursery grown trees over naturally 

 grown stock from pasture or forest lies not only in the more 

 symmetrical crow^n which the nurseryman can produce by 

 proper attention, but in the more compact root system, with 

 feeding roots close to the stem, which he can induce, and 

 w^hich enables him to take it up and preserve it more readily 

 in its entirety. The value of so-called "transplanted" or 

 "several times transplanted stock" lies in the compact 

 stocky root system, and in the properly trained crown, 

 produced by proper pruning at each transplanting. In 

 purchasing nursery stock, therefore, we expect not only live 

 roots and buds, but a good form of root system and crown. 



