
NOTE! 
Our many years of experience in the nursery 
business enable us to give you valuable and 
practical information and service in selecting, 
planting, and caring for plantings. It has always 
been our aim to furnish a superior quality of 
the best varieties of nursery stock and to main- 
tain policies that make our customers of today 
our customers of tomorrow. 
Planting Instructions 
IN GENERAL:— 
The holes for planting must be large enough to 
receive the roots freely, without cramping or 
bending them from their natural position. All 
broken or mutilated portions of the roots must 
be cut off so as to leave the ends smooth and 
sound. All trees should be planted two or three 
inches deeper than they stood in the nursery 
row; pack the soil very firmly about the roots by 
tamping with the feet or pest tamper, being 
careful not to bark or break the roots. Leave 
three inches of the surface soil lcose to serve as 
a mulch. If the ground is very dry apply one or 
two pails of water before this soil mulch is in 
place, and after the water has soaked away it 
can then be placed over the moist. soil. 
ROSES :— 
If roses are planted in the ordinary way with 
the tops left exposed to the sun and drying wind 
of the spring, they are almost sure to shrivel be- 
fore time for them to grow, and thus the plants 
are greatly endangered, while if the following 
suggestions are followed, success is almost cer- 
tain. The plants should be unpacked as soon as 
received from the nursery and planted if pos- 
sible. If unable to plant them immediately upon 
receiving them, they should be heeled-in deep 
(buried) in moist, loose earth, waiting time to 
plant. In planting they should be set two or 
three inches deeper than they stood in the nur- 
sery in well-prepared, damp soil, but not wet 
enough to be muddy. If the soil is dry it is well 
to plant the roses solidly, then wet thoroughly 
and after the water has soaked away, throw up 
a small mound of earth five or six inches high 
around the plant. Then cut off the branches 
about one inch above the mound, leaving it this 
way for ten days or two weeks, or until the buds 
start and show a desire to grow, when the dirt 
mound can be raked down. Roses handled in 
this manner hardly ever fail to make a good 
start and a very satisfactory growth. 
MAY NURSERY CO., Ine. 
“THE YAKIMA NURSERIES” 
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON 


