Cones of White Pine should be 

 picked in early September 



Sow seeds early in spring and shade them. 

 Broadcast is better than in drills 



Two-year Austrian Pine. Root- 

 pruning makes better roots 



White Pine four years 

 old ; I ft. high 



Placing seedlings on the Yale Transplanting Board. Board is 6 feet long and plants forty-seven trees at one operation 



. We have 3,000 trees of this size. They are planted 

 in squares so they can be root-pruned on all sides 

 by a steel blade drawn by wire cable and tackle, 

 puttmg them in splendid condition for transplanting. 



Loads of White Pines 12 feet high. We have 100 of these in our Nurseries and 

 hundreds more up to 30 feet high growing wild in the collecting fields. They 

 have been root-pruned. We will send a crew of men for them on orders for two 

 car-loads of about sixty trees. 



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