. Advice for forest planters in Oklahoma and adjacent regions. Forests and forestry Oklahoma; Tree planting Oklahoma. SETTING OUT TREES. 13 vantages of shipmenfrmay be avoided, some expense saved, and the time for planting considerably extended. The la>t point is often of importance because it may be inconvenient to drop other work to give a shipment of treesthe immediate attention that they require. Home- grown stock can be left in the nursery until a favorable opportunity for setting out the trees occurs. It is always well to choose a wet or cloudy day for transplanting, but if the work m
. Advice for forest planters in Oklahoma and adjacent regions. Forests and forestry Oklahoma; Tree planting Oklahoma. SETTING OUT TREES. 13 vantages of shipmenfrmay be avoided, some expense saved, and the time for planting considerably extended. The la>t point is often of importance because it may be inconvenient to drop other work to give a shipment of treesthe immediate attention that they require. Home- grown stock can be left in the nursery until a favorable opportunity for setting out the trees occurs. It is always well to choose a wet or cloudy day for transplanting, but if the work must be done in dry weather the nursery beds or trenches should he thoroughly soaked a few days before moving the tree-. When a tree i> removed from the ground its roots should be imme- diately plunged into a mixture of earth and water about as thick as cream. This mixture is known as bi ; and is one of the most important requisites to successful tree planting. The pud- dle may be prepared in a large tub and drawn on a sled along the row where the digging is in No^- # .;." Fig. 1.—Heeling in young trees. HEELIXG IN. If seedlings are received from a distance, the boxes should be opened immediately, the trees unpacked, and their roots dipped into a puddle. After this the trees should be " heeled in " according to the following method until ready to be planted in the field. (See fig. 1.) Dig a trench deep enough to bury the roots and part of the stems. The trench should run east and west, with its south bank somewhat sloping. A layer of trees should be placed in the trench on its sloping- side, their tops toward the south, and their roots and stems covered 2 or 3 inches deep with fresh earth dug from the opposite side of the trench. A second layer of trees should then be put in and covered as before and the process repeated until all the trees have been heeled in. In case of conifers care should be taken not to bury the foliage and to -had
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