THE NEW FORESTRY. 



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shillings per thousand is about the 

 average price for trees from three to five 

 years of age. As has been said before, 

 preparatory transplanting in the nursery 

 is of most importance in the case of the 

 conifera species, because all of them are 

 more sensitive to removal than the 

 broad-leaved species that grow quickly, 

 even after transplanting, and may be cut 

 down to the ground without injury, 

 while young conifers cannot be sotreated. 

 Any competent gardener or forester can 

 tell, by their appearance, if forest trees 

 have been transplanted as often as 

 required, because such trees are short 

 and sturdy for their age and much 

 shorter jointed both in stem and branch 

 than trees of the same age that have not 

 been moved, and which are usually tall 

 and spindly, with long straggling roots. 

 A Scotch fir, for example, five years of 

 age, that has never been transplanted, 

 will usually be twice the height of one 

 that has. Moreover, there is a right and 

 a wrong way of transplanting in the 

 nursery that should be here described 

 for the benefit of the planter. 



SECTION IX. NURSERY PREPARATION. 



THE WRONG WAY. 



This method is, we believe, confined 

 to Great Britain, and is condemned by 

 Continental foresters as thoroughly bad 

 in principle. Whether the method 

 originated with the nurserymen or the 

 foresters we cannot say, but it is exten- 

 sively practised by both, and as it lends )) 

 itself to the bad " notch " system of 

 planting out, it may be favoured on that 

 account. Figures will best illustrate our 

 meaning as regards right and wrong Figi.-oneYear'sSeediing. 

 methods of preparation. Figure 1 is a portrait of a one-year- 

 old Corsican fir, and is fairly representative of the conifera 

 generally, and hard-woods also. 

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