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morning. Fungus diseases can usually be checked by spraying 

 with paraffin emulsion or Bordeaux mixture ; but if this seems 

 ineffective, the diseased plants should be pulled up and burned. 

 Both frost and scorching can best be prevented by placing light 

 movable screens over the beds needing protection. Such screens 

 may be of coarse canvas or sacking running with rings along 

 wires raised on wooden pegs, or wooden lattice-work frames, 

 or tree-branches; but if Conifer tree-branches be used over 

 Conifer-beds fungus disease is likely to break out, through 

 saprophytic fungi on the dead foliage becoming parasitic on 

 the seed-beds or in the transplant lines. 



Package, Transport, and Storage of Plants. Seedlings can 

 easily be moved to the nursery-lines in hand-baskets ; but when 

 either seedlings or transplants have to be -sent to some distance, 

 they should be properly protected against heat and wind, to 

 prevent the drying-up of their rootlets. On being carefully 

 lifted from the beds, they should be tied in bunches of fifty, 

 and packed with damp moss in bundles of convenient size. To 

 prevent heating, evergreen Conifers should be packed with the 

 leaves of one bunch touching the roots of another, and in dry 

 weather the moss should be moistened from time to time. If 

 the plants have to be taken by cart, a covered cart best protects 

 the plants from sun and wind. From a home-nursery only so 

 many plants will be sent daily as can be planted. But if 

 received in bulk from a distance they should at once be un- 

 packed, moistened if necessary, and sheuglied or heeled in by 

 being bedded in shallow trenches in some cool, shady, sheltered 

 place till wanted for planting. 



Best Season for Planting. Whether spring or autumn 

 planting is best, often mainly depends on the extent to be 

 planted annually and on the amount of labour obtainable 

 locally, although, other things being equal, it is usually best 

 'to plant broad-leaved trees in autumn and Conifers in spring. 

 Under any circumstances the moving of plants from one place 



