FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL NURSERY STOCK 



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Roster's Blue Spruce growing in our Nurseries — We have the finest and largest plantings in America 



Ornamental Department 



Shade trees, evergreens, and a few fruit trees, are worth $100.00 each at any home — sometimes 

 $500.00 each — but the cost is only 50 cts. to two or three dollars each, and a little care. Have you any 

 excuse for not planting what is worth even $100.00? 



The same deep, loose, fertile soil, long growing season, salt air from the nearby Atlantic, and scientific 

 care that make our fruit trees so excellent, produce spruces, pines, maples and all other home trees, 

 shrubs and flowers that are unexcelled. They will grow into beautiful, strong, shapely specimens. We want 

 you to use our stock because we know, if you will do so, that the success of your planting will be assured. 



SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLANTING 



If you are not ready to plant immediately upon 

 the arrival of the trees, unpack them, mix some 

 loamy soil into thin mud in a hole in the ground or 

 in a tub, dip the roots in this till they have a good 

 thick coat, then trench them in with the tops 

 toward the south. To do this, dig a ditch about 2 

 feet deep, the north side perpendicular and the 

 south side sloping, lay the trees in, roots to the north. 

 Cover roots and most of the trunks with a foot or 

 so of dirt. When the time comes to plant, cut off, 

 on a slant, the face of which is down, all broken 

 roots. Give the trees another coat of thin mud, or 

 set the bunch of trees in this mud and take them 

 out one by one right at the holes. 



In preparing the ground for the trees, dig at least 

 2 feet deep and 3 feet wide. Thoroughly mix the 

 soil you take out, and then you can put about a foot 

 of it back. A recent development is to use a small 

 amount of dynamite in preparing the holes. Run a 

 bar down 30 or 40 inches, and explode a third, a 

 half or a whole stick at the bottom of the hole. 

 The charge should not throw out the dirt, but 

 heave it. We recommend that you use dynamite 

 whenever possible, as it prepares the soil much 

 better than can be done in any other way, and 

 makes the trees grow much faster. 



Start the trees 10 inches deeper than you want 

 them to set. Sprinkle fine dirt in among the roots, 



and, as you continue to do this, jolt the trees up and 

 down so as to settle the dirt in among the fine roots. 

 As the hole fills up keep packing the dirt. Use a 

 heavy maul and come down on the dirt with all 

 your weight. You cannot get it too tight about the 

 roots. This packing is one of the secrets of getting 

 trees to grow. The top inch or two of dirt, however, 

 should be loose to conserve moisture. Trees finally 

 should set just about 2 inches deeper than they did 

 in the nursery. 



After planting, you may water the trees liberally. 

 We strongly recommend that you mulch imme- 

 diately underneath newly planted trees. Hay, cut 

 straw, corncobs, buckwheat hulls, or even sawdust, 

 is good material . to use for this. A layer 6 inches 

 thick is not too deep. Such a mulch will keep the 

 ground damp all the time, and will prevent nearly 

 all evaporation. Unless you use this mulch it will 

 be necessary to hoe around the tree every week or so 

 to keep a mulch of dust on the surface to conserve 

 the moisture. The after-treatment of both trees 

 and shrubs is determined easily by watchful care. 



Burlaped Roots. When the roots of evergreens, 

 trees and shrubs are well balled and wrapped with 

 burlap by the nurseryman, it is usually best not to 

 remove this wrapping, but to soak the ball in 

 water a few minutes and plant the tree with ball 

 and burlap intact. 



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