CHAPTER VII 

 CERTAIN ELEMENTS IN NURSERY PRACTICE 



THIS Manual deals with the propagation of plants, not 

 with business and commercial management. Yet certain 

 phases of the nursery business naturally follow the treatment 



FIG. 199. The Bragg tree-digger. 



of propagation, having to do with the growing and saving of 

 the young stock ; these subjects we may now consider briefly. 



In the United States and Canada a nursery is understood 

 to be an outdoor area, mostly of several or many acres, in 

 which the propagation of trees and shrubs for commerce is 

 the dominant feature. It is this kind of nursery we are now 

 to discuss. Yet, in fact, a nursery is any area or establish- 

 ment in which plants are propagated and nursed, whether a 



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