CHAPTER VII 



Orchard Fruits 



Efiheda no-' count farm tu set i ud plant frute treaz onto it 

 soze to raze the price, i ud taik cair ov them soze ever wun ud 

 bee spilin to by. but i ud allais holdfer a hier price. 



—Joe Moggason. 



TREE PLANTING 



" We receive trees many times that are started 

 to leaf out and with very little packing around the 

 roots," writes Benton Gebhard of Michigan. " The 

 roots are dry and many trees are fatally injured 

 when they get to their destination. Sometimes we 

 immerse these roots in warm water to revive them. 



" The roots should be packed in building paper 

 and moss, or partly decayed chaff. The material 



TREE-SETTING DEVICES 



which holds the moss or excelsior would be a proper 

 material to use in packing the trees. Man)- nur- 

 series use excelsior and rye straw in packing. You 

 can fill a tub with water with this class of material, 

 and squeeze the water out as much as you can, and 

 you will have most of the water left in the tub. 

 But if you take moss or partly decayed leaves, and 

 fill the receptacle with water, upon taking out the 

 moss or leaves, you will find that half or two-thirds 



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