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PREPARATION OF TREES AND HOW TO PLANT 
Before planting, remove the broken roots; cut back 
one-year peach, apple, pear, cherry and plum trees to 
a naked stem iy 2 to 2y 2 feet high, leaving no side branch¬ 
es. Two-year old trees should have their branches cut 
back to half their length or less; the lower limbs less 
than those above, cutting in shorter as you go upward, 
leaving the lead the longest. The trees should be set 
about 2 inches deeper than they stood in the nursery. 
CULTIVATION 
You cannot expect to get good results from your 
trees unless you keep them well cultivated. The soil 
must be frequently stirred during summer. The area 
immediately around the trees must be kept free from 
grass and weeds, and this portion of the orchard should 
receive special attention. All suckers or branches which 
start below the head of the tree should be removed. 
THE PROPER TIME TO PLANT 
All of the stock listed in this catalog can be trans¬ 
planted any time during the dormant period, that is 
from time the leaves drop in the fall until the buds be¬ 
gin to grow in the spring, which season here is from No¬ 
vember 10th to March 15th. 
’’’•Vi. . . 
It is our purpose and desire to supply you with the 
best that can be grown, and we wish for you every suc¬ 
cess. But that success depends largely upon yourself, 
for no matter how good the stock, it must have proper 
attention in handling, planting, fertilizing and cultivating 
to get the best results. On the other hand if you plant 
peer stock, no amount* cf good or even extra care will 
bring success. It is our business to supply that GOOD 
stock, and we know we can, since we have been satis¬ 
factorily doing so for 30 years. 
FERTILIZING 
Do not use unrotted stable manure or compact fer¬ 
tilizer when trees are planted. A few pounds of bone 
meal or a few shovels of well rotted stable manure can 
re used at the bottom of the hole with good results at 
the time trees are planted. When filing the hole after 
placing the tree, put the top soil in the bottom of the 
bole and that which came from the bottom of the hole at 
the surface. Best results with unrotted manure are at¬ 
tained by using it as a mulch, after the trees are plant¬ 
ed. Commercial fertilizers should be used when trees 
start to bud out. It is applied by digging a trench 
around the tree or plant, a few inches past the end of 
the newly planted roots. Then fill trench to cover ferti¬ 
lizer. For the first two years cultivate the orchard dur¬ 
ing summer in some crop suited to the location, such as 
cotton, vegetables melons, peas, peanuts, velvet or soy 
beans, giving the preference to leguminous crops. Nev¬ 
er plant corn or small grain in your orchard. 
