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FORESTRY BULLETIN 



For setting out seedlings that are six inches to a foot high in unplowed 

 ground if the obstructions are not too numerous, two men with long- 

 handled dibbles and a boj' to handle the plants kept moist, can plant from 

 four to five thousand per day, enough for seven acres of land. The boy 

 should carry with him a mixture of trees of several kinds. The man 

 thrusts a dibble into the ground, a seedling goes into the hole, the dibble 

 is thrust again into the ground and pried toward the young tree, closing 

 in the earth about it. If the earth is packed a little about the tree all the 

 better. 



Chestnuts, acorns and the like, should be planted one in a place, about 

 two inches deep, where the trees are needed. This should be done usu- 

 ally in the spring, for then there is less risk of destruction by squirrels. 

 The nuts may be kept over winter without loss of vitality, by burying on 

 high land in twice their bulk of sand. 



An experienced gardener knows that the roots of a young tree when ex- 

 posed to dry air will live just about as long as a trout or a black bass 

 in the same situation ; the inexperienced or thoughtless person might lose 

 most of his labor in tree planting by not knowing this fact. 



