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the same, at a certain time on payment of the regular rates 

 of the growers or nurserymen. 



With this preface to our treating, let us say that when 

 your trees are to hand by means of packing, and trans- 

 portation, you will from neglect of the transporters, find 

 some dried, and others with the tops broken, etc. 

 Some, and most, at this period, are cased in boxes, so 

 that broken tops etc., cannot be laid to the charge of the 

 transporters. 



When the trees come to your hands, have ready a trench 

 to imbed the roots ; but ere you imbed them take each tree, 

 an d x with a sharp knife, from the wider, toward the upper 

 side of the root, cut it smooth, taking away all the rugged 

 lines; next take the top branches and as apparently of 

 the roots; they should be shortened in the main branches, 

 one-quarter to two-thirds of the past years growth, while 

 all of the small twigs, or limbs, be cut cleanly to a line of 

 the branch from which they grow. 



This done, and our rule for planting pursued see fore- 

 going no special care will be needed until one year has 

 passed; then the trees should be gone over again, say at 

 the time near to the formation of the terminal buds of 

 growth of the year ; care in pruning should now be es- 

 pecially given to the shortening in of irregular branches 

 that show tendency to destroy the true roundish upright 

 head ; small slender twigs should be cut away close to the 

 branch from where they have grown. Do not leave a 

 knob of half an inch projection, but cut clean and smooth, 

 and the wound will soon heal. 



