Figure 2. Types of rooting in sugar maple cuttings. Those at the top are 



vigorous; those at the bottom, Meak. 



further protected by a wooden inverted V-shaped sheUer of lath. None of 

 the cuttings thus treated survived the winter. At the close of the rooting 

 season of 1955 half of the rooted cuttinas were o;iven this same treatment 

 and the other half were potted and were packed in boxes with sawdust 

 up to the tops of the pots. They were taken to the Horticultural Farm and 

 left on the ground beside the barn to harden. At the onset of very cold 

 weather, just before the final freeze-up, they were placed in a sheltered 

 room beneath the barn, where they were covered with a thick layer of 

 sawdust on all sides and top, held in place by heavy building paper. 



The following May the boxes of rooted plants were moved into daylight 

 outside the barn and evidence of survival awaited by renewal of vegetative 

 growth. Of 200 plants thus treated. Ill or 57 percent were alive on May 

 20, 1956. By Septend:)er 1. 1956. about 45 were alive and growing in the 

 field. Of those planted directh in the nursery the previous fall, none sur- 

 vived. Based on this kind of evidence, for all subsequent seasons the rooted 



