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intelligent and industrious treatment, and
you may feel confident of success.

intelligent and industrious treatment, and
you may feel confident of success.
Having your trees on hand, as already pre-
missed, the first thing is to cover, Or heel
them in. If unfavorable weather, or any
other circumstance is at all likely to delay
the planting for some time, it is best to make
a good trench, running east and west if con-
venent, and SO inserting the roots, that the
trees will lean thirty or forty degrees to the
south, sift well pulverised soil among them
so as to thoroughly till all the spaces among
the roots, and in addition to that, cover them
sufficiently deep, to prevent them from dry
ing out and protect them from frost Ii you
can plant Immediately, 'heel in temporarily
then take out, prune, and cut off lacerated
and broken roots, as you set. If the trees
are yearlings, no matter whether 1, or
feet long, cut them back to about 3 feet, or
to such length, if that does not suit you, as
yo .,.aIs> the bodies to have. If the trees
are older, and have heads or tops already
formed, do not destroy the tops without they
are entirely to high, or Informed, but 30 re-
duce them by cutting back and thinning out
(if necessary as TO insure the life and vigor-
Gus growth of the trees. While | think the
assertion OF any positive rule for pruning
such trees would be impracticable, | am Of
the opinion that it is best to reduce the tops,
in the way above stated at least one half and
if the trees are quite large, and the tops
heavy, two thirds or three-fourths would be
still better
Your trees thus prepared, if the stakes
marking the places where the trees are to
stand, have been stuck, and the holes dug,
you may 60 to setting If not, you can pro-
coed as follows to set your stakes. Begin at
one corner and run, say directly west, if that
is the course you wish to go, using a tape
line, Tor pole, which is better,) measuring
Just the distance that you want your trees
apart. Run your next line in the same man.
ner at right angles with the first, and so on
around the piece to the place of beginning
putting stake all the way around as you go,
at each place where you want tree. Hav-
ing your outside rows thus completed, you
can easily and accurately fill ali OF the inside
places, by sighting two ways, without any
further measurement. After you have thus
stakei around the tract, think the best way
is to stake two lines at right angles across
the entire tract through the center. This
gives you stakes enough to sight accurately
across the piece from any point, and will
enable you to fill up the several squares thus
created, easily and correctly. Three persons
are desirable; two to sight, and one to set
the stakes. Having your stakes thus set, dig
the holes either round or square, so that the
stall es shall be right in the center. Then pro-
coed to set your trees just where the stakes
stood, and by sighting in the same manner,
you can easily correct any little departure
from the right place, and thus get your trees
in an exact line.
If yonr orchard is extensive, it would be a
great saving OF time and labor to use a double
team and pillow, after your stakes have been
stuck, passing over your ground both ways
as you would to plant corn, making your
crossings Just where the stakes stand. Then
set your trees in the crossings which would
need only little alteration with the hoe or
spade to tit them for the trees, getting the
exact place for the trees by sighting the same
as if the pillow had not been used. Thus set,
your trees will range beautifully in every d.
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