Practical Sylviculture 



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SPRING OPERATIONS IN THE FARM NURSERY 



When the seedlings in the farm nursery are old enough 

 to be planted into the permanent site, they must be taken 

 from the seed-beds, or nursery rows, in the early spring as 

 soon as the frost is out of the ground and before the growth 



Fig. 31. — Lifting and counting seedlings in nursery. 



is started. Pine or any small spruce seedlings are best 

 lifted from the beds with a spade, since the spade can be 

 forced into the ground well below the roots, lifting them 

 out entire. They must then be carefully separated from 

 the soil, leaving the roots clean. They are sorted into 

 sizes — usually two — tied in bundles of fifty or a hundred 



