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ESTABLISHING THE ORCHARD 



to set a t-w 

 the nursery. 



vear anple tree. The tree ia set a little deeper than it atood 

 Fig. 20. — -Same tree as shown in Figure 19, set. 



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to the man and the farm. On many farms the autumn 

 is fully as virulent as the spring one. 



The cliief objection to autumn planting is that the trees have 

 to be dug so early, in order to insure their getting to the orchard 

 man on time, that the nurseryman may be tempted into digging 

 them before they are mature enough for the leaves to drop 

 naturally. The leaves must therefore be stripped, and the 

 stripped tree is not so good as one which loses its leaves naturally, 

 because it is robbed of much plant food which the leaves would 

 have supplied had they been allowed to remain on the trees. 

 Stripping the leaves too early exposes the immature buds and 



