. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 106 AMERICAN FORESTRY. Scotch Pine at Bretton Woods, N. H., Planted by the Bretton Woods Co. failure is only three to five percent. They are so hardy that I have picked up New York State transplants at Saranac, pulled up with no more ceremony than one would devote to a head of lettuce, and then after carrying them down to my place in South Jersey, they laid firm hold on the soil and next hear had two feet of crown to show me. Granite base soil of New York, sandy loam of South Jersey, it was all grist to those lusty young white pines. A Scotch pine see
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 106 AMERICAN FORESTRY. Scotch Pine at Bretton Woods, N. H., Planted by the Bretton Woods Co. failure is only three to five percent. They are so hardy that I have picked up New York State transplants at Saranac, pulled up with no more ceremony than one would devote to a head of lettuce, and then after carrying them down to my place in South Jersey, they laid firm hold on the soil and next hear had two feet of crown to show me. Granite base soil of New York, sandy loam of South Jersey, it was all grist to those lusty young white pines. A Scotch pine seedling taken at the same time only barely recovered from this treatment. The transplants come to you in April or May, upon application to the State forest service made some- time during the winter. They will arrive buried in wet sphagnum moss and you are to guard them above all things from drying out, for a sun-dried root is a dead root, nor all your penitence and tears will avail to lure it back to life again. If you are not ready to plant, heel them in a shallow trench on the planting site. Your planting gang will be in units of two men and should get in 600 plants a day. The hole man goes ahead with a mattock and lays bare a shallow hole with a single stroke of the mattock. He must have a good eye for alignment on the sighting poles, and either step his paces evenly or space his holes with a stick gauge. His mate follows with a pail full of transplants with their roots buried in muddy water. He plants the trees, surrounding the roots with the topsoil lifted by the mattock man finishing off with the base soil to discourage weeds. At the end of the row they move the sighting stakes and start back. On slopes and dry ground this will be all the planting labor expended, as Nature is kind in May and the young trees will not lack for showers and moisture. In rocky soil the mattock man will have harder going and may need a helper to dis- lodge boulders in his path or dynamite to dest
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