NURSERY MANAGEMENT 285 



rugated paper and light wooden boxes. For express and 

 freight, all the above list may be included, also burlap, 

 baskets, crates, heavy wrapping paper, excelsior, straw, 

 cord, rope and packing cases, the largest preferably iron 

 bound or battened. 



To save postage, as little moist packing as possible 

 must be used. This must not be wet, or the package will 

 be refused by the post office. Legal weights of mail 

 packages must not be exceeded. The roots must be 

 washed free of earth, straightened, laid close together, 

 tops all pointing one way to form bundles of three or 

 four inches in diameter. They must be covered with one- 

 half inch of damp moss and wrapped first in oiled or 

 paraffined paper, with the tops loose but the roots snugly 

 wrapped. By rolling the bundle diagonally and turning 

 in the corner of the paper, tying may be avoided. To 

 finish, the bundle should be wrapped completely in manila 

 paper; tied securely around center once or twice and 

 across the ends, the address written on the package and 

 also on a shipping tag, fastened preferably where the 

 strings cross. 



For basket and crate packing in warm weather, the 

 plants are left with their tops visible in the bundles made 

 as above and stood upright on excelsior, which is also 

 packed around the sides. Burlap or cotton cloth is used 

 to protect the bundles in baskets ; battens serve the same 

 purpose in crates. In cold weather the packing is in- 

 creased and the tops covered completely. 



Heavy shipments are packed in large boxes, the larger 

 trees in two or three inches of damp cut straw or similar 

 material and fastened in place with battens nailed 

 through the sides. Small trees, shrubs and berry plants, 

 are placed in their order of size till the box is full, packing 

 and battens being used as necessar)' to fill the box solid 

 full, so there will be no shifting in transit. After the 

 cover is nailed on it should be marked "TOP" in large 

 letters and the address painted or inked on with a brush. 



