FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL NURSERY STOCK 
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Kostefs 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. 
Rurlaped 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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