FALL TREATMENT OF SEEDLINGS * 



elapse between the time the digger passes under the seed- 

 lings until they are pulled, buried and covered, tops and 

 all. If the pullers do not follow closely to the digger, 

 and the seedlings should stand for an hour or so in the 

 hot sun or a high wind after cutting, they will become 



FIG. 18. Burying Apple Seedlings to Remove Leaves. 



soft and willowy, with a tendency to die back at the tip, 

 showing their loss of vitality. 



" After seedlings have been buried in the field for fifteen 

 or twenty days, the leaves begin to drop off, and it is then 

 safe to take them up and haul them to the grading cellar. 

 Here they are buried in beds in a convenient place near 

 to where they are to be graded. In these beds the bunches 

 stand upright, they are wet when put in, and covered with 



