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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
PLANTING DISTANCES 
ll is all right to have lixed distances between the rows 
and in the rows between the plants in the nursery, but 
il would require a large table to cover the many plants 
that are grown in all their various stages. 
As in all other knowledge experience is the best 
teacher, in fact is the only teacher worth while. The ex¬ 
perience of others however carefully recorded is a poor 
substitute as compared with actual experience of your 
own. 
In deciding distances at which to set plants economy 
of ground and labor is the deciding factor. 
If the planter can mentally vision the growth and the 
labor and cultivation that will be required to bring his 
plants to the stage when they will have to be transplanted, 
be it one month or three years, he will not be very far 
out in his spacing. 
Sometimes however experienced with such plants as 
are used for ground cover, or vines, the planter makes a 
mistake, gets them too close, expecting to clean them by 
hand until such times as they will cover the ground and 
take care of themselves. The weeds get ahead and the 
labor entailed to keep them clean makes him regret it 
and form resolutions never to plant again except in rows 
wide enough for either the horse or hand cultivator. 
A recent experience with small evergreens was a case 
in point. Hooted evergreen cuttings were planted out in 
rows, being so small they were planted in rows about 9 
inches apart to save ground and labor. It was easy to 
keep them clean through the summer, but through lack 
of time to clean a fall crop of weeds were allowed to es¬ 
tablish themselves, these practically smothered the 
plants before the plants could be hoed in the spring 
necessitating a lot of costly hand weeding to clean them. 
Had the rows been wider apart so the cultivator could 
have been used the labor would have been much less. 
Transplanting every other row made it possible to 
keep them clean with a minimum amount of labor. 
It is doubtful economy however small the plant or how¬ 
ever slow growing to plant in beds or in rows too close 
for the cultivator. 
Even with vines and ground cover plants such as Vinca 
minor Pachysandra termmalis or the creeping herba¬ 
ceous plants it is less costly to raise them, everything con¬ 
sidered, if planted in rows wide enough to cultivate, it 
reduces the hand weeding and hoeing to a minimum. 
In Holland where land is valuable and every foot has 
to produce its quota it is a common practice to plant an 
occasional row of trees among the shrubs and evergreens. 
This gives the trees plenty of head room to develop into 
nice specimens and if not overdone has a beneficial ef¬ 
fect on the smaller plants. 
It is a practice that could be followed to an advantage 
in this country. It does at least make the nursery look 
interesting and does not interfere with the economical 
working of the ground. 
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| WANTED—Large Evergreen stock in 
| carload lots; we will do digging. Send 
| snapshots and inventory. We purchase 
| entire well-located nurseries, with or 
| without property. 
1 LEWIS & VALENTINE CO. I 
| 47 W. 34th Street, | 
I NEW YORK CITY | 
1 Roslyn, L. I. Rye, N. Y. Ardmore, Pa. | 
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WANTED 
FOR SALE 
X. C. Natural peach seed. 
WANTED 
Norway Maples, Evergreen and shrubs for lining out. 
E. W. JONES, Nursery Co., Woodlawn, Va. 
WANTED—NURSERY FOREMAN. Knowledge of varieties 
and of propagation not as important as ability to handle help. 
Address G. H., Care National Nurseryman, Hatboro, Penna. 
WANTED to exchange American plum seedlings, Laurel leaf 
willow. Golden Willow, American Ash, Carolina poplar, Can¬ 
adian Poplar, Box Elder, Russian Olive seedlings and trees for 
apple, cherry and lining-out stock. 
CLINTON FALLS NURSERY CO. 
Owatcnna, Minn. 
Graduate Forester with 4 years experience in Civil Engin¬ 
eering entailing surveys, grading, plans, etc., would like posi¬ 
tion with prominent and growing Landscape Gardening firm. 
Box 1, Care National Nurseryman. 
