McMINNVILLE, TENNESSEE 4| 
CARE OF TREES AND PLANTS 
Your Success with Nursery Stock Depends on Bropes 
Planting and Care 
Wolires eve been written on the planting and care of 
orchards and the beautification of home grounds, and yet 
each planting becomes an individual problem. Regardless 
of how choice your selection may be in trees and plants, or 
how perfect they may be when received by you, unless 
they are handled properly in planting and given the 
right kind of care, they will not give the results that are 
desired. Therefore, we offer a few general suggestions on 
the care and cultivation of trees, which will help make a 
success of the planting of stock which we supply. 
Care of Stock. The bundles should be opened immediately 
upon arrival, the roots of plants dipped in water, and heeled. 
in the ground, if holes are not all ready to set where wanted. 
Dig a trench deep enough.and wide enough to take the root- 
system, and then cover the roots, firming the soil so as to 
contact each root. If some of the trunk (or branches, in case 
of shrubs) is covered with soil, the protection is double. 
A little water applied to dry soil is helpful. Trees heeled 
in may be kept several weeks in perfect condition. When 
ready to plant, take up only a few at a time, puddle the 
roots, and do not allow them to lie exposed to the sun or 
air. Be sure to remove label wire before tree begins to 
grow, or it will be fatally injured through strangulation. 
The ground should be carefully prepared by deep plowing 
and firming down with a disc and harrow Poreie setting 
orchard material. 
Planting. 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 tramping with the feet or 
post tamper, being careful not to bark or break the roots. 
Leave three inches of the surface soil loose 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. 
Never put manure so as to come in contact with the roots 
of any plant or tree. 
Fall Planting. Practically all items of nursery stock may 
be successfully planted in the fall and results obtained are 
generally highly satisfactory, usually much better than if 
planting is delayed too late in the spring. It is recom- 
mended that planting be done as soon as possible after the 
first killing frost, but hardy stock can be transplanted safely 
at any time during the winter when the ground is not frozen 
or too wet. ‘Some precautions are necessary, however, with 
a few kinds of plants and trees which are somewhat more 
tender to cold. Special bulletin giving detailed instructions 
will be sent for the asking, 3c postage stamp being sent 
to cover cost of mailing. 
That you cultivate your newly planted trees is just as 
important as it is to cultivate tobacco or any other crop. - 
Only after the tree has become well established should cul- 
tivation stop. Even then your trees will respond to fertiliza- 
tion and cultivation. 
Careful and proper setting of trees and plants is neces- 
sary but is only the beginning of a successful orchard or 
beautiful home grounds. Cultivation, mulching, and water- 
ing, as well as spraying and pruning, must be carried on 
consistently or first investment will fail. Cover crops planted 
~ in the orchard and turned under with the plow at the right 
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