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PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



soil, and left exposed to frosts during the winter, to be sown in 

 drills in spring, or they may be planted in rows at the time of 

 gathering. When planted in seed-beds composed of rather 

 light or sandy soil, the seedlings will produce a greater number 

 of small, lateral roots than when the nuts are planted in heavy 

 clay. The seedlings may be transplanted when one or two 

 years old, and a portion of the tap root removed as directed in 

 a previous chapter. When treated in this way, all the hickories 

 are as readily and safely transplanted, as the chestnut and 

 similar forest trees. Propagation by budding and grafting has 

 not been very extensively or successfully practiced by our 

 nurserymen. By securing good, thrifty seedling stocks, and 

 then grow them in pots for a year, or until they are well 



Fig. 28 THICK SHELL-BARK 

 HICKORY. 



. 29. CROSS SECTION OF THICK 

 SHELL-BARK HICKORY. 



established, a fair degree of success may be obtained in grafting 

 the hickory in propagating houses or in frames. In warm 

 climates the propagation of nut-bearing trees of all kinds ap- 

 pears to be attended with far greater success than in cold 

 ones. Loudon in referring to the subject in Vol. III., Arbore- 

 tum and Fridicetum, p. 1431, says : "Much has been written 

 on the subject by French authors, from which it appears that 

 in the north of France, and in cold countries generally, the 

 walnut does not bud and graft easily by any mode ; but that in 

 the south of France, and north of Italy, it may be budded or 

 grafted by different modes with success." fhe same may be 



