vide place for planting not only evergreens but for more hard 

 wood trees, which will be in great demand in time to come. For 

 smaller forest planting it should be carefully considered that in 

 many places there will not be sufficient soil as the surface of the 

 ground often consists of stones and refuse from the trees which 

 are not desirable to plant in, and therefore it will be of great 

 value to have some fine soil delivered to certain places and only 

 a small amount is needed for each plant. The plants should be 

 held between the two hands in the holes made for planting. The 

 hands held in this manner will prevent sticks and leaves from 

 coming in contact with the roots which should be strictly avoided 

 but will do for surface covering. 



PLANTING IN GENERAL, ALSO IN LARGE 

 SIZES OF TREES. 



There are two planting seasons for evergreens as well as 

 deciduous trees, but I prefer the spring planting for evergreens, 

 but the latter part of August and the month of September are 

 also the general time for evergreen planting, the fall planting is 

 not always in favor on account of the dry and hot weather which 

 are partly the objection fo'r evergreen planting at that time. If 

 evergreens are planted late in the season they will not have a 

 good start before the cold weather sets in, and it is often that 

 - tries planted late in the season will die, this is in most cases due 

 to the fact that the roots have not been in working order before 

 the cold sets in and it is quite clear that an evergreen must be in 

 good order to stand the winter. If an evergreen is moved with 

 a large ball of earth it is quite safe to be moved almost at any 

 time. Evergreens in sizes up to forty feet have been moved on 

 a large scale in many extensive estates where such planting has 

 been desired. 



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