FALL MANAGEMENT* 



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CHAPTER VI. 



FALL MANAGEMENT OF THE NURSERY. 



Art. 1. — Destroying Weeds in Autumn. 



Much of the success of the nursery depends on 

 the fall management, which by many persons is little 

 attended to. To clear the ground in the spring and 

 summer has but little bearing on the well being of 

 young fruit trees, if they are is not well attended to 

 in the fall ; for when weeds are allowed to ' remain 

 and distribute their seeds on the ground, in the fall, 

 the nursery may be considered more a nursery of 

 weeds and nuisances, than a spot, of ground adapted 

 and managed for the growing young trees in a healthy 

 and vigorous state. 



Supposing the fall management to begin with the 

 month of September ; the principal thing to be done 

 at that time is to clear the ground of all kinds of 

 weeds that are in a state for seeding and encumber 

 the ground ; the cultivator should also be aware 

 that weeds when taken from the ground before they 

 have seeded, do not exhaust the soil of nutriment so 

 much as when they have become ripe ; for when 

 weeds are even cut off when green and the roots re- 

 main in the ground, they absorb from the atmosphere 

 much nutriment which they return to the soil. Hence 

 the propriety of clearing the ground of them is not to 

 be doubted, therefore at this season clear the ground 

 of all kinds of weeds and anything that may either be 

 considered as a nuisance, or creative of vermin or 



