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54. POT TRANSPLANTING. 



Pot transplanting is sometimes practiced in growing various 

 species of Eucalyptus and to lesser extent in growing conifers in 

 the warmer and more arid portions of the United States. The 

 plants are transferred to the pots from the seedbeds or flats when 

 from a few weeks to a year old. Collapsible pots, open at the bot- 



Photograph by U. S. Forest Service 

 FIG. 89. Pricking out plants into paraffined paper pots. 



torn and made of paraffined paper, are chiefly used. These pots are 

 filled with soil and arranged in flats. One or occasionally two seed- 

 lings are planted in each. After growing therein for a few months 

 or an entire season the trees are planted with the pots. One 

 man can prepare the soil and pot from 600 to 750 plants per day 

 (Fig. 89). 



