requests otherwise. I also wax the 
trunks with a thin wax emulsion. This 
gives transplanting a higher percentage 
of success because the wax keeps the 
trunk from sending out so much of 
the limited supply of moisture. 
One of my fellow experimenters 
planted 700 nut trees in the spring of 
1937 and lost 1%, but he sprinkled the 
roots with watering pot when he 
opened the bales, and wrapped the 
roots of every tree with wet burlap 
while carrying it from the bale to the 
hole. The nut trees do not make fibrous 
roots of size that can be moved except 
with ball of earth. It is very impor- 
tant that the roots do not get at all 
dry in planting. 
In planting the tree be sure that 
there is room for roots to spread out 
as far as possible and that earth is 
carefully worked in so that it touches 
every part of every root. 
In filling up the hole leave a basin 
that will hold two buckets of water, 
and if the ground slopes make little 
drains so that shower runoff will run 
into the basin. Then joggle the roots 
to make closer contact with earth. 
Then fill up and tramp. Now put on 
water. If you have to carry this water, 
carry it. It’s cheap insurance. Do not 
put on water until you have finished 
putting in the earth. This is important. 
It is an excellent plan to immerse 
the root end of your unopened bundle 
of trees in water for the night before 
you plant them out. The drink they 
get helps them through the next days. 
22, 
Care Immediately After Planting 
We beg that the trees be protected 
by clean cultivation or by 3 or 4 foot 
radius of straw, old hay or paper mulch 
for the first two years, and watered if 
drought comes. It is really scandalous 
the way some people will pay good 
money for trees and then kill the trees 
by neglect. I want your trees to grow. 
You should by all means buy our little 
booklet on planting care and fertiliza- 
tion of nut trees; see our price list. 
All this may sound a bit fussy, but 
remember you are winding up some- 
thing that will run for centuries. George 
Washington’s Pecans are still growing 
and the English Walnut trees in a cer- 
tain forester’s yard, in Poland, are said 
to be 300 years old and yielding 1200 
pounds of nuts per tree at a full crop. 
We do our best, but like other 
nurserymen we give no guarantees. In 
this booklet we have done our level 
best: to state the up-to-date facts, but 
we would remind our readers that there 
is much that we yet need to know 
about the locations for particular kinds 
of trees. 
References 
Round Hill National Bank, Round 
Hill, Va.; Swarthmore National Bank, 
Swarthmore, Pa. 
