FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY 



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Asparagus — Prepare ground by deep plowing or spad- 

 ing. To have it ready early it should be planted on 

 light soil. The sprouts are not usually cut for the 

 market until the second year after planting, except to 

 mow down the canes in the fall or spring. Plant from 

 lour to five inches deep, covering with only three inches 

 •of soil at first, and cover the remainder as the plants 

 :grow. The rows should be five feet apart, with the 

 plants set two feet apart in the row. Broadcast about 

 five bushels of salt and three hundred pounds of Ni- 

 trate of Soda to the acre in March and give it a good 

 top dressing of stable manure in November, 



Rhubarb — Prepare ground as for Asparagus. Set the 

 plants with crown or eye two inches under ground. 

 Plant three feet apart each way. Mulch in winter. Give 

 <clean cultivation the same as for any other crop. 



FOR ROSES OR GRAPES 



Planted too shallow 



Planted just right 



Hoinr to Plarat EvergreesBS 



1) Dig hole a foot larger and deeper than ball of earth 

 Provide good, loamy top soil to fill around ball. 



SET TREE IN HOLE 

 TRIFLE LOWER THAN 

 IT STOOD IN NURSLRY 



TOPSOILUPAROUN 

 BALL. PACK FIRMLY' /Vi 

 WITH FEET OR SE^ 

 TLE BY FILLING hdH 

 WITH WATER 



OOSEN BURLAP 

 AT TOP OF BALL AND 

 ROLL BACK OR CUT 



5;FILL hole with SOIL. PACK FIRMLY 

 AND LEAVE TOP OF GROUND COVERED WITH LOOSE 

 EARTH. OR BETTER MULCH WITH STRAWY WELL ROT- 

 TED MANURE 



If planted in beds or groups the ground should be 

 spaded deeply and well worked. If shrubs are set as 

 individual specimens they should be planted the same 

 as trees. 



Set shrubs at the same depth as they stood in the 

 nursery row, or with their crowns at about the surface 

 of the ground. Water the plants well during the hot, 

 dry weather and keep the ground well stirred around 

 them. Most shrubs require judicious pruning at plant- 

 ing time, and subsequently, when shrubs are planted, 

 it is advisable to cut them back from one-half to two- 

 thirds, with but few exceptions. 



HEDGES 



Privet — Dig trench twelve inches deep or more and 

 set the plants four to six inches sleeper than they stood 

 in the nursery row, or deep enough so the lower branch- 

 es will be four to six inches under the ground. Such 

 deep planting will make a compact hedge down to the 

 ground line, but if the plants are set shallow there will 

 always be undesirable open spaces at the base of the 

 hedge. Some planters set Privet in a double row, eight 

 to ten inches apart each way, which makes a very dense 

 hedge. Cut Privet back to six inches when planting to 

 promote thick new growth at the lower part of the plant. 



Barberry-Spirea — Should be planted in the same man- 

 ner as shrubs, either in trenches for hedge or as groups 

 or individual specimens. Cut back and thin out one- 

 half of top wood. 



SHADE TREES 



Ornamentals — Dig holes large enough to accomodate 

 all roots without bending or cramping. Fill the hole 

 with good top dirt and firm it hard. When the hole is 

 three-fourths full allow a bucket or more of water to 

 seep away around the roots, after which the hole may be 

 entirely filled. It is well to mulch the tree immediately 

 to prevent drying out. Prune all limbs back to five 

 or seven grood buds, even though the appearance of the 

 tree is impaired by such treatment. Water trees during 

 the summer months and give them plenty of attention 

 until they have become well established. Large sizes of 

 shade trees can often be staked to advantage until their 

 roots have obtained good anchorage in the soil. 

 FALL PLANTING 



When set in autumn, a mound of earth, a foot or more 

 in height, must be raised about the trees. This is very 

 essential, as it keeps them from being swayed by the 

 winds or thrown out by the frost during the winter. 

 It should be removed in the spring. 



In sections where the winters are extremely severe, 

 trees procured in the fall can be best cared for by cov- 

 ering the roots with earth during the winter and plant- 

 ing them in the spring. 



To insure success, select a spot where no water will 

 stand during the winter, having no grass near to in- 

 vite mice. Dig a trench deep enough to admit one layer 

 of roots, and sloping enough to permit the tree to lie 

 at an angle of not more than 30 degrees with the ground. 

 Having placed one end of the roots in this trench, 

 cover them with mellow earth extending well up on the 

 tree and see that this is firmly packed. Then add an- 

 other layer of trees, overlapping the first, continuing 

 as at first until they are all heeled in. As soon as this 

 is done, cover the tops so with evergreen boughs that 

 they will be thoroughly protected from Avinds. 

 SPRAYING 



There are four distinct types of troubles to combat, 

 i. e. : Chewing insects, sucking insects, scale insects 

 and fungous diseases. Chewing insects are controlled 

 with a stomach poison, some form of arsenic (lead ar- 

 senate), sucking insects (lice or aphids) by body contact 

 poison (nicotine), or miscible oil (kerosene emulsion), 

 and fungous diseases by lime-sulphur solution or Bor- 

 deaux mixture. Be sure you know Avhat you are spray- 

 ing for, since arsenate of lead will not control lice or 

 aphids, nor will nicotine or kerosene emulsion control 

 apple worms, and neither of these will have anv ef- 

 fect on apple scab or other fungous diseases. Lime- 

 sulphur is used as a dormant' spray for scale, insects 

 and also for fungous. In spraying the apple, keep in 

 mind the two main apple troubles, the codling moth 

 and apple scab, and, in controlling these, most other 

 troubles are immediately controlled. Lead arsennte and 

 lime-sulphur or Bordeaux mixture are the sprays to 

 use. For further information write your State Depart- 

 ment. 



Distance for Planting — Square Method 



Distances for planting different kinds of fruit trees, 

 etc., square method: 

 Peach. 20 to 2G feet apart each way. 

 Standard Apple. 25 to 40 feet apart each way. 

 Cherry (sour). 22 to 3G feet apart each way. 

 Cherry (sweet). 24 to 40 feet apart each way. 

 Standard Pear. 24 to 40 feet apart each Avay. 

 Plum. 20 to 24 feet apart each way. 

 Pecans and Black Walnuts. 40 ft. to 80 ft. 

 Engrlish Walnut. 30 ft. to 40 ft. 

 Filberts. 6 ft. to 8 ft. 



Grape Vines. 8 to 10 feet apart, 8 feet apart in row. 

 Blackberries. Rows G feet apart, 4 to 6 feet apart in 



roAV. 

 Raspbei'ries and DcAvberries. RoAVS 4 feet apart, 4 to 5 



feet apart in row. 

 Strawberries Field Culture. RoAVS 3i/^ to 4 feet apart, 



15 to SO inches apart in row. 

 Strawberries Garden Culture. Rows 24 to 30 inches 



apart, 12 to 18 inches in row. 

 Asparagus (field grown). RoAvs 5 feet apart, 18 to 24 



inches apart in row. 

 Asparagus (in beds). Rows 2 feet apart, 12 to 18 inches 



in roAV. 



To find number of trees or plants per acre, use the 

 rule beloAV. 



NUMBER OF TREES OR PLANTS TO THE ACRE (Square System) 

 RULE — Multiply the distance in feet between the rows by the distance the plants are; number of square feet 

 tor each plant, which, divided into the number of square feet in an acre (43,560), will give the number of plants 

 or trees to the acre. 



Distance No. of Trees 



1 foot apart each way 43,560 



2 feet apart each way 10,890 



3 feet apart each way 4,840 



4 feet apart each way 2,722 



5 feet apart each way 1,745 



6 feet apart each way 1,210 



7 feet apart each way 888 



o feet apart each way 680 



Distance No. of Trees 



9 feet apart each way 5.37 



10 feet apart each Avay 435 



11 feet apart each way 360 



12 feet apart each Avay 305 



13 feet apart each Avay 257 



14 feet apart each Avay 222 



15 feet apart each way 193 



IG feet apart each Avay 170 



Distance No. of Trees 



17 feet apart each way 150 



18 feot apart each Avay 134 



19 feet apart each Avay 120 



20 feet apart each way 108 



25 feet apart each Avay G9 



30 feet apart each way 48 



35 feet apart each Avay 35 



40 feet apart each way 27 



