108 PACK IN MOIST EAKTH. 



ground must be deep and in " good heart," not over 

 stimulated by putrescent manures. Collect the seed 

 from the common pear, and sow it in shallow drills 

 in April. During the summer the surface of the 

 ground should be kept loose and entirely free from 

 weeds. If not large enough for transplanting when 

 one year old, the bed should be mulched with salt 

 hay, straw or other litter, as a protection against the 

 alternate freezing and thawing, which often destroy 

 large numbers of seedlings. In the fall of the second 

 year, the seedlings may be "lifted" carefully, and 

 the roots with a portion of the body packed in moist 

 sand or earth, and placed in a cellar until spring, 

 when they should be transplanted into the nursery. 

 The plants are to be set about a foot apart in the 

 row, and the rows three to three and a half feet 

 apart. 



By the first of August, the bark will separate 

 readily from the wood, and the stock may then be 

 budded with such varieties as are wanted. 



The buds should be taken from young healthy 

 trees. An active person will set from 2 to 3,000 

 buds in ten hours with another person to follow and 

 tie. 



The branches of buds are cut from the growing 

 trees and trimmed as seen in Fig. 10. The operator 

 then cuts off six or eight buds at a time, and places 



