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PEACH CULTITEE. 



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acter we have been describing as suitable, once or twice 

 over wUl be sufficieut. If stiff or cloddy, more -will be 

 required. In any case, all the lumps should be completely 

 broken, and if any chips, roots, or stones, show themselves 

 , on the surface, they should be gathered up and carried off. 

 The ground should now be rolled with a good, heavy 



wooden or metal roller. 

 This will thoroughly crush 

 any remaining lumps that 

 may have escaped both 

 plow and harrow. It will 

 also pack the ground, and 

 give a very fine smooth 

 surface. 



These preliminaries hav- 

 ing been gone through, the 

 only remaining preparation 

 necessary is " signing " or 

 marking out the ground. 

 As the rows are to be plant- 

 ed in drills, this, of course, 

 is only done one way. From north to south is preferable, 

 as the sun, light and heat, reaches more of the surface of 

 the young trees than if the rows run in any other direction. 

 The rows may be run with a light plow, as for corn, 



but this is not the best _^ 



way, and when the nursery 



is large, the following 



method will be found both 



economical and good. If the 



nursery is fenced off by itself, 



run a furrow parallel with the northern fence, and at the 



distance of four or five feet from it ; a similar one at the 



southern end, as shown at figure 1, where a, a, are the 



head rows, running east and west, and 5, 5, the nursery 



rows, running north and south. The rows of trees are 



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Fig. 1. — DIAGRAM OF NUBSEKT. 



Fig. 2. — MARKER. 



