Show TREE PLANTING TEE low to Secure I Proper Balance Between Rot and Top < In transplanting young trees tiy and cct a good proportion of roots Bo sure atod prune so a to secure a proper balance between root and top The right and wrong idea regarding balance of parts can hardly b better illustrated than in the cut here presented from Popular Gardening Gar-dening See Figs 2 and 3 UL llf BEFORE DlflOrSO APTHR DIOODO ITUNCD The first figure is that of n vigorous young nursery tree before digging showing tho numerous strong roots reaching some feet out Careful examinations exam-inations havo shown that the roots of 1 young tree fully equal or exceed in extent tent tho branches of the top It is impossible im-possible to preserve all these roots in digging especially after the tree i a year and upwards old The usual practice is t thrust the digger into the earth about a the engraving en-graving shows and the larger part of tho finer roots too delicate really t handle stay back Thus the trees balance bal-ance in root and top is broken at the nursery it reaches the planter in tho top heavy condition Qf Fig 2 Plant it hu as so generally is done and the rootis not possibly equal t tho task of supporting its entire top The tree i out of balance Fig8 chows tho saruo treo handled for restoring tho balance lost in digging through pruning away enough of the top t correspond with the loss of the roots This is the course that all planters plant-ers should follow Remember that tho soil needs thorough cultivation and enriching en-riching for trees as well as for corn Rtbzrass and Cover Professor W J Beal sends n warning to farmers in form of n bulletin from tho Michigan State College station about ribgrass or narrow leaved plaintaiu which is becoming common in clover seed While it is not tho worst of weeds tho seeds aro difficult i to separate from those of tho clover and when present iu juro the sale of the clover seed Ho says Plantago lanceolaia L ribgrass rihwort English plaintiinj narrow leaved plaintain buckthorn plaintain has a perennial pe-rennial root n rosette of narrow leaves sis to ten inches long acute at each end an angled flower stalk one to two feet high bearing a cylindrical spike of flowers Tho shining sees aro brown oblong convex on ono side concavo on tho other The leaves usually spread close to the ground like those of the dandelion dan-delion and thus exclude other plants The stalks are slender without leaves and afford little fodder Careful farmers farm-ers who road this not ice will do well by calling the attention of their neighbors to the subject and help keep ribgrass ou of their fields |