Planting trees

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The best method of ascertaining how to plant a tree properly is to observe the carefully prepared sketches.

More can be seen in these pictures than can be expressed in words, The main object is to have a hole large enough for the roots, and to get the trees just a little deeper than they stood in the nursery.

An important necessity for newly set trees is a support. The wind whips the tree about and the young roots are easily loosened. Stakes should be set deeply and be a real support; or the tree may be supported by wires, taking care hat these wires are in contact with rubber packings on the branches so that they are not girdled.

The proper staking of trees is a very important matter.

Wrong method of planting. A tree is obviously placed too high, and its roots are also cramped. In the other case the soil is mounded up too much, thus shedding off the water