A young tree with a strong and exten- 
sively branched, but compact, root system 
is the tree that survives. Good hereditary 
characteristics through selection of seed 
is the basic requirement — careful han- 
dling and scientific culture in the nursery 
usser Root Systems 
is also essential. The many additional 
feeder roots in Musser Cultured Tree Stock 
enable the young tree to extract the most 
food from the soil of your planting site. 
Musser Tree Stock is superior. It will sur- 
vive where inferior planting stock will not. 
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Three-year Musser 
Hemlock Seedlings 
Note exceptional 
Root and Branch 
Development 
Stock is transplanted in our nurseries 
from one to four or more times. Each 
time, the longer, more easily damaged 
roots are reduced so that more small 
feeder roots develop near the stem. The 
more feeder roots, the more quickly the 
tree is established on your land. Also, 
feeder roots makes the tree easier to 
plant. 
Each year, in the spring and summer, 
we transplant hundreds of thousands of 
seedlings to build more feeder roots. Re- 
sults prove extra cost is repaid many 
times over. Below is shown a section of 
the resulting compact mass of small transplant beds during a recent season. 
Labor is the biggest cost in growing tree 
stock. After transplanting, seedlings must be 
protected against weeds that will smother them. 
An extensive overhead sprinkling a> 
system assures continuous growth. A Musser 
tree has never been retarded by drought. 
Cuttings and Grafts 
To reproduce exact qualities desired in stock 
of a certain species, Musser Forests propagates 
by cuttings or grafts. 
ROOTED CUTTINGS are small branches from 
perfect specimen trees, rooted in our green- 
houses under controlled conditions of fertility, 
moisture and temperature. In cases where a 
species will not root from cuttings . . . 
GRAFTS are produced by introducing cut- 
tings of the desired quality into hardy root 
stock of a related species. Grafting is a com- 
plicated cultural process covering some months. 
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One of our Greenhouses for propagation of Rooted Cuttings 
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