Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 16.—Heeling in nursery stock. This should be done very carefully to prevent the roots drying out. Where trees arrive in bad condition from drying in transit,they should be taken to a brook or to a pond and soaked for aday or two, if possible having the whole tree under water. It issurprising what this will do for even the worst cases. Another thing to guard against at the time of heeling in isdamage from mice. They will frequently gain entrance to abundle of trees, particularly if the trees are stored near thehouse, an
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 16.—Heeling in nursery stock. This should be done very carefully to prevent the roots drying out. Where trees arrive in bad condition from drying in transit,they should be taken to a brook or to a pond and soaked for aday or two, if possible having the whole tree under water. It issurprising what this will do for even the worst cases. Another thing to guard against at the time of heeling in isdamage from mice. They will frequently gain entrance to abundle of trees, particularly if the trees are stored near thehouse, and girdle every tree in the bundle. Where mice areplentiful enough to be troublesome in this way, they should beyarded against by putting a pen about the spot where the trees 52 ESTABLISHING THE ORCHARD are heeled in. A board ten or twelve inches wide will answerthe purpose. Working Out the Plan.—In actual orchard operations theentire field is usually not staked off before the digging of the.
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