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Show Phil Durt You Pay Good Money For Trees, Shrubs; Take Care Of Them he sold you stock that was perfectly per-fectly good plants that- would ' grow and thrive if they had been ? ' cared for properly. ', You have bought, maybe for the first time in your life, evergreens, trees and shrubs. You paid out good money for them. How are you taking care of them, now they are planted? Many home owners are guilty of blaming the nurserymen for selling poor quality stock, when the plants die in a short time after they are planted. The gardener gard-ener hurries back to his dealer to demand that the poor man either replace the stock or the money. Nine times out of ten, the death of the plants can be traced to the negligence of the home-owner. When the stock arrived from the nursery, maybe it was left around for a day or two before planting. Maybe there was a lot of company, and no time to plant, or the load of top soil hadn't been delivered. Anyway, the plants weren't set in the ground right away. But the roots were left exposed to the air, during the days when you "were getting around to the planting job." . Then a ten cent hole was dug to set a five dollar evergreen in! And all the good top soil was put back on the top of the ground, instead of being placed down around the roots where it could give the plant a bit of help. Then the watering! Say a hole 18 inches deep was dug to set the plant in. Does the home-owner make sure that the water penetrates pene-trates down to those roots every time the plant is watered? Or is there just enough water applied to wet the top two or three inches of soil? Newly set plants of all kinds need extra attention at-tention during the first year of their life. The nurseryman may replace the stock or he may return your money to you. But he knows that |
