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GUIDE. 



This method has the advantage that it keeps the seeds fresher, and that it 

 subsequently provides earth for the saplings while they need it during their growth. Earth 

 banked up next to furrows is steeply sloped; it slides down readily, and ensuing rainfalls 

 soak it and progressively wash it to the bottom of the furrows. 



PLANTING SEEDS ONE-BY-ONE. 



Large seeds, such as those of oaks, chestnuts, walnuts, horse-chestnuts, almonds, 

 peaches, and others like them that have been stratified since the autumn and that are 

 germinating or about to do so, are planted one-by-one in rows a fixed distance apart. If 

 the trees from these seeds are to grow permanently in the same location, the seeds are 

 planted with the radicle intact. The trees will become larger and prettier, and they are less 

 susceptible to being uprooted by the wind. But if the saplings are to be transplanted, it's 

 best to clip the end of the radicle with a fingernail, so that the taproot, instead of growing 

 straight down, will branch out and divide into several roots that spread out at ground 

 level. The trees thus will be more certain to take root again when transplanted. 



This method is used for planting small groves of oaks, beeches, and chestnuts. In 

 country gardens it's also used to plant sturdy wild stocks among trees on an espalier for 

 later grafting of the desired species when they begin to show signs of withering. 



