. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. WINTER STORING OF TREES. I45 A cellar a hundred feet long, twenty feet wide, and ten feet high in the clear, will winter about 25,000 three-year-old apple trees, if the trees are corded, as already described. These storage cellars soon engender mold or fungus if they are allowed to become too warm or too close. Cel- lars with floors as high as the surface of the ground keep "sweeter" than those which are sunken. The remedy for this fungus, which often does great damage to stock, is
. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. WINTER STORING OF TREES. I45 A cellar a hundred feet long, twenty feet wide, and ten feet high in the clear, will winter about 25,000 three-year-old apple trees, if the trees are corded, as already described. These storage cellars soon engender mold or fungus if they are allowed to become too warm or too close. Cel- lars with floors as high as the surface of the ground keep "sweeter" than those which are sunken. The remedy for this fungus, which often does great damage to stock, is to keep the house well aired, and then to kill it out by fumi- gating. A common practice is to burn shavings or sawdust in the cellar, and then open the doors and windows and air the place. If the smudge is dense, the fungus is said to be easily destroyed. Evaporating sulphur—not burning it— upon an oil stove is also effective. Place the sulphur in a. 143. storage cellar. pan and set this pan in another of about the same size, in the bottom of which is a layer of sand a half inch thick. Place both of them upon the stove, and allow the sulphur to melt and evaporate, filling the house with the fumes. The layer of sand will prevent the sulphur from catching fire, unless it is allowed to run over. Burning sulphur quickly kills all plants which are in active growth. Its action upon dormant nursery stock is unknown to the writer. A low temperature' and an abundance of fresh air, however, are the best safe- guards against fungus. They are also essential to the pre- servation of the bright, vivid color of the stock. Trees which are wintered in close and warm cellars look dull in the spring. The temperature should be kept as near freez-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
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