ESTABLISHING A WOODLOT 



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SPACING TO BE FOLLOWED IN FOREST PLANTATION 



From Farmers' Bulletin 711 



How to Plant the Trees. — The seedlings should not be 

 pulled up from the nursery, but should be lifted with a spade, 

 so as not to strip the tender bark from the roots. They 

 should be placed at once in pails with several inches of water 

 in them, so that the roots will be kept moist all the time. The 

 trees can also be placed in baskets, provided the roots are 

 kept covered at all times with wet moss and only one seedling 

 removed at a time for planting. When the planting site is at 

 a distance from the nursery the seedlings can be tied loosely 

 in bundles to facilitate handling them. The roots should be 

 puddled in thin mud, so that they will become coated, and the 

 bundles healed in or planted firmly in shallow trenches so that 

 the roots are well covered, until time to ship them. In ship- 

 ping, the roots should be packed firmly in wet moss, leaves, 

 straw or moist earth, so as to exclude air and keep the roots 

 moist. When the seedlings reach the planting site they should 

 be healed in as before until needed for planting. Great care 

 must be used with coniferous seedlings, for exposure of the 

 roots to the sun and wind, even for a few minutes, will usually 

 kill them. A seedling should not be lifted from the pail until 

 it is ready to be planted. 



There are several methods of planting seedlings. In gen- 



