AMERICAX SYLVICULTURE 

 Paragraph XXII. Transportation of seedlings. 



If tlie roots are thorouglily protected, a voyage from Europe to 

 Biltmore, though it may take six weeks, will not injure the plants. 

 Plants are loosely put together in bunches of one hundred to two 

 hundred, are placed in baskets or open crates, the roots in the 

 center, the tips at the circumference. Layers of plants alternate 

 with layers of damp moss. Seedlings packed tightly, especially in 

 boxes, are apt to mould. 



Plants merely taken to a nearby plantation on wagons should 

 be well covered Avith branches, moss or sacks, and should be 

 sprinkled during transportation. Ball plants do not need packing 

 unless balls are very loose, when burlaps are neciessary. One hun- 

 dred Yellow Pine ball plants, with balls ten inches square, make 

 up a two-horse load. Fifty thousand seedlings without balls and 

 well watered, or eighty thousand seedlings slightly dampened, 

 usually make a wagon load. 



Under adverse climatic conditions, the use of plants planted in 

 minute paper bags — like those used in raising Eucalypts — is highly 

 advisable. 



Experiments made at Biltmore with one-year White Pine seed- 

 lings are to the effect that seedlings having the roots exposed to 

 air and wind 



for 10 minutes, had a death rate of 5% 

 for 20 minutes, had a death rate of 10% 

 for 30 minutes, had a death rate of 70% 

 for 45 minutes, had a death rate of 90% 

 for 60 minutes, had a death rate of 100% 



The experiments prove that the utmost care is necessary, under 

 adverse co'^iditions, to preserve the vitality of the roots during the 

 act of transportation. 



Paragraph XXIII. Common methods of plant- 

 ing seedlings. 



A. Planting in furrows. 



The furrows should be made deeply with a sub soil plow. Tiie 

 plants are distributed, at proper distances in the furrows. Then 

 another furrow is at once given with a turning plow, throwing the 

 needed dirt over the plants, which are tliereafter adjusted by hand 

 and pressed into proper position. 



This is a quick method of planting, but is practical only on 

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