The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-29
TREES.
Necessity Of Care in Both the Autumn an
Spring Work..

Necessity Of Care in Both the Autumn and
Spring Work.
In setting out young trees from tho
nursery to the orchard, we have always
found them in the best condition if dug
in autumn, carefully heeled in for win
ter, and set out in spring. In heeling
them in, it is important, and in fact alb
solutely essential, to do the the work in
the best manner, allowing no interstices
% remain among the roots by compactly
applying fine mellow earth, banking the
soil partly up the stems for additional
protection, and selecting a wcll-drained,
sheltered place. If the whole are sur
rounded with aridge of smoothly-beaten
earth, the mice will be excluded from
them, as these animals will not ascend
steep and smooth earth under snow.
When the trees are carefully taken
out in spring, small white fbers will
often be seen protruding from the cut
ends of the roots, and as these need not
be disturbed, they will be ready to aid
in immediate growth. But when the
trees are dug from the nursery row in
or broken after the movement for
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necessarily given to them.
1t will be observed here that there
are three requisites for the best success
in the course we have recommended,
MANIPULATING in autumn, careful heel
ing-in and setting out in spring. 1t is
true that they may be set out in autumn
Immediately after digging, but in this
case they will be liable to be injured by
winter, being fully exposed to the
winds; and they will be liable to the adj
ditional injury, after starting to grow.
from the hard crust of earth formed by
long settling, if allowed to remain I'M
broken around them. These objections,
however, are at least partly removed if
the trees are set in a sheltered place,
and the soil kept well pulverized during
the following spring.
Many planters find that spring-set
trees do better than those t~ransplanted
in autumn, simply because the opera
ton mellows the soil about them just an
| growth is commencing, and this is bet.
ter than the hard unbroken crust which
has been forming since. the previous
| autumn.
The different operations in transplant
ing may be carelessly and specifically
performed, and the trees may die, or
make little growth. For instance-they
may be carelesslY dug up, with short
stumps of the mutilated roots; they may
be heeled-in in a mass, the lumpy earth
being carelessly thrown on their roots,
interstices left all through them which
the mice easily penetrate, and the ad-
mitted air being allowed to dry the
roots and kill the trees.
The same general principles will ap-
| ply to the bushes of the raspberry,
blackberry and currant, but the man
agement may be varied by setting them
out at once, if sufficient protection is
| given them, as the young plants, being
cut back to a few inches, are less ex-
posed to winter winds, and such plants
as young raspberries may be well pro.
tected with a forkful or two of manure
| placed over each one.
We have not given to strawberries q
series of trials under suitable manage.
ment, to lay down rules, but we observe
a statement of Samuel Miller, of Mis-
souri,, that his strawberry plants taken
up in the fall, carefully heeled-in, pro.
tected during winter, and set out in
spring, were farther advanced and sci
more fruit than those taken up il
spring. The heeled-in plants had So
nice set of new roots started, which
went right ahead" But it should no
be forgotten that without full protection
with access of the covered plants at the
same time to air, the experiment vii
be a failure Country Gentleman.