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9. Do not allow them to become too dry nor to become moldy. 

 10. Seeds of mulberry, catalpa, osage orange, and a. few others may be 

 kept in sacks hung in a dry, cool place. 



11. Seeds with thick hulls like walnuts, hickory nuts, peach seeds, 

 plum seeds, and some others may be buried in the yard or 

 garden or in sand pits during winter. 



12. The ground should be well drained. Ordinary freezing will 

 help to open the shells and facilitate germination. 



13. Test seeds before planting in the spring. (Class Study.) 



14. Keep all kernels that are plump and firm and discard those that 

 are withered or diseased or wormy. 



15. Use more seeds in the germination test than are required for 

 the plats. 



16. When seeds are sprouted by the different methods, blotters, 

 sand, etc., the pupils may take the seeds and plant them at home 

 in a small plat, and care for them until they are large enough 

 to transplant to the nursery bed. 



A few of the trees named in the nursery table may be se- 

 lected for shading purposes, but the best results will undoubtedly 

 come from the raising of fruit trees. (See table page 429). 

 Apple, pear, peach, cherry and plum seeds can be easily 



started at home, and very often 

 young trees may be secured from 

 fruit orchards. 



When the trees have arrived 

 at the proper age and grow.th 

 they should be grafted by the 

 pupils. This should be done in 

 connection with a careful study 

 of the text. 



Study the childhood of farm 

 trees. Let it be the history of 

 their propagation and develop- 

 ment in the nursery from the 

 planting of the seed, through 

 the various operations of build- 

 ing, grafting, sprouting, trim- 

 ming, and fertilizing until the 

 trees are ready to transplant and begin their new cycle of life 

 amid the surroundings of the orchard. 



FIG. 6 School Garden. 



