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and girdle the trees. An excellent device to keep mice out of 

 a heeling-in yard is to place a foot board on edge all about the 

 place, leaning the top out a little. Hold the boards in place 



FIG. 207. Store-house for nursery stock, partly beneath the surface. 



by stakes, close up the cracks and tramp the earth against 

 the bottom of the boards, and the mice are fenced out. If 

 it is necessary to cover the tops of peach and other tender 

 trees, evergreen boughs may be found to be a satisfactory 

 protection. 



Within a generation, the nursery business has been greatly 

 benefited by the free use of cellars for the storing of stock. In 



FIG. 208. Store-house or " cellar." 



these cellars the stock is safe from winter injury, and it can 

 be moved to customers before the land is fit to dig in the spring. 

 These cellars make the nurseryman somewhat independent 



