ing as soon as the seed has sprouted up out of the 



ground. 



This applies to dry weather planting. During the 

 rainy season, when there is moisture in the air, the 

 sacking can be dispensed with, unless the days should 

 happen to be extra warm and dry. 



Preparing the Soil and Planting of 

 Fruit Trees 



Unless the soil is properly prepared in advance for 

 the planting of trees and shrubs, for your flower and 

 vegetable gardens, your efforts will come to naught. 

 Soils that dry out hard after the rains or irrigations, 

 should have a dressing of coarse horse manure, and 

 for light, sandy soil cow manure to the depth of four 

 to five inches. Turn under with a spading fork, then 

 give a good soaking with water, when sufficiently dry 

 so it works up nice and loose, give the ground another 

 spading over. Then take a vineyard hook or a potatoe 

 digger and proceed to pulverize the soil and mix in the 

 manure. If the manure is fresh, which I prefer, plant- 

 ing should not follow under three or four weeks after 

 putting the manure in the ground. If the manure is 

 rotted before putting into the soil, planting can fol- 

 low at once. 



For fruit trees, holes as a rule should be dug at least 

 three feet in diameter and three feet deep. A wheel- 

 barrow load of manure dumped into the bottom of 

 each hole and another wheelbarrow load mixed into 



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