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Show Ready for Young Trees. While the stock is coming, prepare the ground. It will not be necessary to add new soil as the trees have been selected with reference to the kind found where they are to be planted. Dig very large holes and fill them in. The trees always do better in filled ground than they (jo in that which has not been broken up. If the land is sod, it would be well to plow the entire en-tire strip, as grass is a great enemy to newly planted things. When the trees arrive, take them at once to some friable land near where they are to be planted and heel them in. Nursery stock is often injured by being kept too long in boxes. After the plants are heeled in it will be safe to trans-plant trans-plant them to permanent places any time within a week or ten days from the ume of their arrival. |