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weeded and cared for, or in a well-prepared bed surrounded 

 with boards and covered with "cellar wire" netting to keep 

 out mice, rabbits, squirrels and other enemies. If planted in 

 the fall they should be mulched the first winter. When they 

 have outgrown this little nursery they may be replanted in 

 nursery rows or set in the ground where they are to remain. 



Plants from the nurseryman, if well cared for and properly 

 packed, should be moist about the roots when received. The 

 bundles should be unpacked as soon as possible, the bunches 

 loosened enough so that all the roots may come in contact 

 with the earth that is to receive them and they should be 

 "heeled in" or covered at once in a trench in moist earth on 

 the north side of a building or in a cool cellar. A brief ex- 

 posure to sun and wind is enough to destroy both root hairs 

 and rootlets. If at all dry when received the roots should 

 be immersed in water before heeling in. Plants thus treated 

 may be left with safety while the ground is being prepared to 

 receive them. Young trees arriving with the roots dried out 

 will sometimes recover if the top be cut back severely and the 

 entire tree immersed for a few days in moist earth before 

 planting. 



The worst possible way to set out a tree is to dig a little 

 hole in old sod and set the tree in it. 



The best way is to set all trees in land that has been well 

 cultivated and manured for at least two or three years previous 

 to the setting. Vigorous young trees from one to three feet 

 high will make a better growth when transplanted than those 

 that are older. There is no advantage for our purpose in 

 bringing larger trees from the nursery. Trees may be started 

 well in poor gravelly land by digging out a hole about two 

 feet deep and large enough to hold a cartload of loam, in 

 which the tree is set. 



When setting out trees it is well to plow or trench the soil 

 deeply and fine it well. I have had excellent success on poor 

 soil by digging holes about eighteen inches deep and five feet 

 in diameter and putting in with the loam some ground bone 

 and chip dirt. 



Before setting a tree its roots should be examined, and if any 

 have been mangled or broken they should be trimmed back 



