CARE OF TREES UPON ARRIVAL 
Your trees are worthy of the best of. care, | 
‘ After receiving your shipment unpack immed- | 
iately and remove all of the packing material. } 
The roots should not be exposed to the sunlight | 
and drying winds. Dig a trench deep enough to | 
hold the roots and long enough to hold all the | 
trees, in a place convenient to the planting site | 
and if possible in a shaded location such as the | 
North side of a building or woodlot and near a | 
supply of water. Place the roots in the bottom |) 
of the trench and fill in fine moist soil, then pack | 
it firmly about the roots to exclude the air. If 
the ground is dry moisten the earth around the | 
roots. 7 
HOW TO PLANT 
Experience has taught us that it is not neces- | 
sary to prepare the soil in any way before | 
planting, as the additional expense is not just- | 
ified and we find that the grass and weeds | 
prove a benefit in conserving the moisture and | 
a shade during the first few years after plant- — 
ing. Do not use any kind of fertilizer on the | 
Soil. : iad gat i 
In planting trees three men work well to- | 
gether—one man digs the holes with a mattock, 
the other two follow with buckets of trees | 
immersed in soupy mud until planted. After | 
digging a hole deep enough to accommodate the | 
roots be careful and spread the roots out, then — 
pack good fine soil around them which will | 
insure success, — . 
When trees are planted too close together, | 
they crowd and the resulting competition | 
speeds the height growth and tends to make a 
poor Christmas tree. Many different opinions | 
are offered on tree spacing. Four feet by four | 
feet spacing requires 2720 trees to the acre and | 
may be used where thinning is contemplated | 
at a comparatively young age. Five feet by | 
five feet spacing requires 1740 trees to the acre | 
and is most generally used as it allows for the | 
Christmas tree thinning and will still leave a } 
good stand of timber. Six feet by six feet | 
spacing requires 1210 trees per acre and is ree- | 
ommended where trees are planted for forestry | 
products and no thinning is intended for twenty 
to twenty-five years. | 
SPECIES TO PLANT 
Different species have different rates of 
growth, making it possible to harvest more | 
crops from the same plantation. A mixture 
of species in each planting is most desirable | 
and will no doubt be responsible for additional | 
sales when the trees become marketable size. = | 
