CHAPTER VITI. 
DIGGING TREES FROM TOE NURSERY ROW, AND 
PACKING. 
Tuer is no branch of the nurseryman’s business 
that requires more care and attention than removing 
young trees from the nursery row. On the judi- 
cious performance of, this very delicate operation 
depends to a great extent the future success or fail- 
ure of the pear orchard. I'rom practical experience 
for the past fifteen years in buying fruit trees, I feel 
confident in saying there is less care exercised in this 
department than in any other connected with the 
nursery. As a general rule (of course there are some 
exceptions), the labor of “lifting trees” is performed 
by strength and ignorance. The men who are em- 
ployed for this kind of work eare but little if a third 
or even one-half of the roots should be detached 
from the tree by careless and rude means, so long as 
the required number of trees is dug out. The 
method practised in many nurseries is: one man on 
each side of the row of trees with an obedient spade 
in hand, while a third man takes hold of the top of 
