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Planting with yearlings or two-year-old seedlings is only 

 carried out under protective standard trees when the con- 

 ditions of the soil are favourable but as a rule two to four- 

 year-old seedlings taken from adjoining woods, or from 

 temporary nurseries, with balls of earth attached to the 

 roots, find most demand. On good and not too binding 

 soil younger plants of six to twenty-four inches in height can 

 be put out in wisps by means of notching ; they are planted 

 about 4 feet x 4 feet, whereas seedlings of 2 to 3 feet are 

 usually only put out about 5 feet x 5 feet on account of 

 the greater cost. Larger transplants of 3 to 5 feet are 

 generally put out at 6 feet x 6 feet when required for the 

 filling up of blanks. 



Planting operations should be conducted early in spring 

 before the buds begin to swell much. Where the use of 

 large transplants is necessary in the open, the twigs on the 

 lower portion of the stem should not be altogether removed, 

 as otherwise the young plants are more liable to injury 

 from sun-burn ; trimming in a pyramidal form is therefore 

 to be recommended. 



2. OAK (Quercus Robur^ L. =Q. PEDUNCULATA, Khrh. and 



Q. SESSILIFLORA, Sill.) 



Originally, both varieties of the oak were known under 

 the general name Quercus Robur, L., but they are now recog- 

 i\ised as having decided sylvicultural as well as botanical 

 differences ; they differ in bark, arrangement of branches, 

 foliage, flowering, fruiting, and habitat. The leaves of the 

 Eiglish, common or pedunculate oak (Q. pedunculata, 

 Khrh.) have a short petiole, or are nearly sessile : those <>l 

 the sessile or durmast oak (Q. sessilifloni, Sin.) have mostly a 

 petiole over half an inch long ; except on one-year-old seed- 



