Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-01
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There are hundreds of farmers who have
resided upon the prairies for dozen OF
more years, who have not planted on an
average one tree for each year; and nc
more has been done toward securing or
nament, shelter, or fruit, although they
could have had thousand trees laid down
at their door at any time for less than the
value of a yearling pig. Small evergreens
are sent out by nurserymen by mail fol
about 81 per hundred, and certain species
of shade, ornamental, and limb I9trees for
from So to So per thousand. For instance
silver maple seedlings, one year old, have
been advertised for several years past al
from So to So per thousand, sent by mail
postpaid to any part Of the United States
| we have before us a catalogue received
from one ofSour ell-known Western nur
| serymen, in which we find Seeding fores,
trees quoted at the following rates pei
thousand: White ash, 8 to 12 inches. SO;
beech, So birch, 81; elm, s1.a5; silse,
| maple, 81 sugar maple, 3 to inches HIGH
So and many other trves at equally low
rates. % { - w 8 -
These prices are for trees delivered to
| customers at the nursery, but we presume
| that one dollar per thousand extra
would pay for packing and post
| age if sent through the mails. Ever
green trees as rule cost more than decid
uous, still they are cheap enough to come
| within the reach Of the poorest settler in a
| new country. Many of the seedlings
mentioned above, if carefully planted and
| cultivated, would in five years become
trees six inches in diameter and twenty
| five or thirty feet high. A prairie farm
| with thousand such trees growing upon
| 1t would certainly command an additional
price of more than ten times the cost OF
| the trees and the expense of culture dur
| the period named. Where timber trees
| are plentiful a man can usually enhance
the value of land by planting merely or
namcntal species of fruit trees, and it
usually proves to be very profitable in
vcstment
In planting trees of all kinds, there are
certain rules and conditions that Should be
remembered and practiced.
/. Plant early, before the spring rains are
over and the soil settled and dry There
is little danger Of doing this work too
early provided the soil is in a condition to
handle readily.
2. In removing trees, either large or
small, more or less roots will be cut off or
broken; consequently a corresponding
number of the branches should be re
moved or shortened. 1t is always safe to
give the roots the advantage by reducing
the branches, leaving less top than root,
especially with deciduous trees s@z%
3. In removing trees like the maple,
birch, and Similar kinds, from which the
sap flows freely from wounds made on
stem or branches in spring, always dig up
and cut loose the roots from the soil before
pruning, because this prevents excessive
bleeding, as it is termed. Grape vines are
no exception to this rule, although many
persons think it will not do to prune them
in spring, even if they are transp planted at
the time
4. In planting always pack the soil
firmly above the roots of trees, and also
| carefully fill up all interstices between
them
). In removing trees from one place to
| another, and during the operation of plant
ing, keep the roots moist, and exclude
| them as much as possible from drying
| winds and the direct rays of the sun
6. Arran &c the roots in natural posi-
| ton, descending from the stem outward
and place them no deeper than they Were
| originally, OF course allowance must be
| made for the loose soil with which they
are covered 10 become compact.
T. Large trees with few brace roots re
| quire stalking when first planted to pre-
vent swaying about and breaking the
young rootlets as they push out into the
soil--Neac Y0rk Sun