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removal of the trees. The stock should be transferred to baskets 

 or boxes as soon as it is lifted. It should be protected from the 

 sun and wind and taken at once to the packing shed for assort- 

 ment and shipment or for storage, or else taken to the field for 

 planting. 



3. Lifting Nursery Stock from Broadcasted Seedbeds and 

 from Seedbeds with Closely Spaced Rows. One- or 2-year conif- 

 erous stock is usually removed from the seedbed with the lifting 



FIG. 90. Lifting white pine (2-1) with the short-handled spade. 

 Near Cheshire, Conn. 



fork, the ordinary short-handled spade, or the spading fork. 

 The spade or fork is inserted vertically in the soil close to the 

 plants and deep enough to reach the lower roots. A piece of the 

 bed with the contained plants is removed and shaken until it 

 falls to pieces releasing the plants. On the heavier soils the 

 inserted spade or fork should be moved vigorously backward and 

 forward, at the same time gently pulling on the plants. The 

 roots are gradually liberated and the plants removed with little 



