Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 1 07 



and failed to ripen perfectly either wood, bark 

 or buds. When one year switches are used it 

 would be well to set in the spring. They 

 should be carefully protected during winter in 

 trench or cellar, trench preferable. 



Too Early Delivery. — Fall is the time to 

 secure nursery stock, even for spring setting. 

 Care should be taken, however, that the de- 

 livery is not made too early. It sometimes hap- 

 pens that trees wall be delivered to the farmer 

 or fruit grower before the leaves have begun 

 to fall from the trees in his home orchard. 

 They would not be received by the most 

 thoughtless grower if they were covered with 

 dead or wilted leaves. But the average cus- 

 tomer receives and pays for them without a 

 word, although the bark may be very much 

 shrivelled and the twigs quite dried out 



Stripping of Nursery Trees. — In order to 

 make early deliveries the nurserymen often strip 

 the leaves from the trees while they are standing 

 in the row. This practice should be discour- 

 aged, or at least not encouraged by the planters 

 insisting on early deliveries. 



Purpose of the Leaf.— The purpose of the 

 leaves should not be forgotten. They will com- 

 plete their work under normal conditions, if 

 allowed to. Unless they are permitted to re- 



