STOCK AND CION HANDLING 



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stock but now for all purposes. Probably 95 per cent of 

 our cherries are budded on it. Why? 



Doubtless it is easier to make better-looking nursery 

 trees on mahaleb than on mazzard, and it is cheaper. 

 Mazzard has the faults of its species capriciousness as to 

 soils, climates, cultivation, pruning, diseases and insects ; 

 mahaleb is adapted to wider range of soils, is hardier to 

 heat and cold, less particular as to tillage, will stand 



FIG. 169 UNPACKING AND HEELING-IN NURSERY STOCK 



This work should be done immediately on arrival of stock, unless trees are in 

 prime condition and can be planted at once. If shriveled or dry the trees should be 

 soaked in water two or three days before planting. 



more pruning, is less susceptible to insects and is not 

 badly affected by shot-hole fungus. It is more easily 

 worked, both as to actual budding and to length of sea- 

 son. It also ripens its trees better and may thus be dug 

 earlier than trees on mazzard. 



Fruit growers in their turn find trees on mahaleb 

 stocks hardier, though not as hardy as might be wished ; 



