TREATMENT OF SEEDLINGS. 



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start eight inches. Mr. Kelsey's method of setting is 

 quoted with the only comment that the distances are 

 too small and that the planting board, as also the 

 method of planting recommended by Mr. Fraser, are, 

 in the author's opinion, less speedy and convenient 

 than the method described and figured on Page 27. 



"After the season's growth, the seedlings should 

 be transplanted into permanent beds in the fall, after 



FIG 1 6. KELSEY'S LATH SHADE 



the tops have died down. Some prefer to wait till the 

 second autumn, but the roots are more liable to be 

 injured, and it is very important that a good, clean tap 

 root is preserved, making at maturity a larger and 

 more salable article, that will command the best price. 

 "A planting board (Fig. 17) is made of three- 

 quarter-inch white pine, or similar wood, five feet nine 

 inches or three feet nine inches long, and one foot 

 wide, to easily fit in the four-feet and six-feet beds. 

 This board is braced by light strips tacked across the 

 ends and middle to prevent warping, and notches five 

 inches apart are cut on the edges. A trench is then 



