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should be removed about the base of the trunk, making 

 a basin, and a pail or more of water poured about the roots 

 and allowed to soak in. The surface soil should then be 

 replaced and raked loosely about the base as a mulch to 

 prevent evaporation. For newly transplanted trees, even 



FIG. 14. Trees Growing in Sod. Brandon Normal School. 



in dry weather, once in two weeks should be often enough 

 to water. Good cultivation of the ground, however, is 

 necessary. Figures 14 and 15 show two rows of trees 

 planted the same year within two hundred and fifty feet 

 of each other. The rows run parallel, the slope of the 

 ground is the same, and the soil as nearly identical as it 

 would be possible to get it. They were planted and have 

 always been cared for by the same men. The only way 

 in which their treatment differed was that a lawn was made 

 around those in Fig. 14, while the ground about the other 

 row has been kept cultivated. No trees died in the row 



