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can expect success. Nurserymen and others who have 

 learned these characteristics transplant evergreens with about 

 as much success as they do Cottonwoods or Willows. 



It is scarcely necessary to discuss the great desirability of 

 having prairie homes sheltered by evergreens. Suffice 

 it to say that a windbreak of evergreens will add to the value 

 of the farm immensely more than they have cost, and the 

 cheering effect of the green foliage every day of the year, 

 with the grateful protection afforded from wintry blasts, 

 will add immensely to the comfort of the homes upon our 

 windswept but fertile prairies. 



Transplanting. 



Sometimes evergreens are planted in the fall. This is 

 usually due to the efforts of irresponsible agents who sell 

 evergreens for fall delivery. It is a waste of time and money 

 in this climate. Reliable northwestern nurserymen never 

 sell evergreens for fall delivery. This lack of success with 

 fall planting of conifers is due mainly to the drying winter 

 winds, the trees not being able to make new root growth 

 until the following spring. 



About ten years ago it became necessary to clear a block 

 of Ponderosa pines in the fall. Seven thousand of these trees, 

 which were about two feet in height, were donated to the 

 department to test the matter of heeling in the trees care- 

 fully, in a protected place with lath screens over during the 

 winter. The following spring these trees were carefully 

 planted in the usual manner in a plantation intermingled 

 with aspen and other trees. Very few of these pines lived. 

 So few, in fact, that it would have saved time and money to 

 have burned them in autumn instead of heeling them in. 



THE BEST TIME TO TRANSPLANT EVERGREENS. The 

 best time to transplant evergreens is when the buds 

 are beginning to swell in the spring. This means that they 

 can ordinarily be handled a little later than the deciduous 



