Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 15.—Planting board for locating tree in setting. See also Figure 19. Heeling In.—When the trees arrive they should be heeled inat some spot convenient to the orchard site, usually on the siteitself (Fig. 16). This heeling in should be done with a gooddeal of care, the bundles of trees being opened and the earthworked carefully in among the roots and tramped down solid. HEELING IN 51 In some cases it is worth while even to water them, especiallyif they are to stand here long before setting:. The writer em-phasizes this
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 15.—Planting board for locating tree in setting. See also Figure 19. Heeling In.—When the trees arrive they should be heeled inat some spot convenient to the orchard site, usually on the siteitself (Fig. 16). This heeling in should be done with a gooddeal of care, the bundles of trees being opened and the earthworked carefully in among the roots and tramped down solid. HEELING IN 51 In some cases it is worth while even to water them, especiallyif they are to stand here long before setting:. The writer em-phasizes this matter because he has so often seen trees heeled incarelessly- without opening the bundles and without trampingthe soil down carefully, with the result that the air passingdown through the centre of the bundles would circulate freelyamong the roots and dry them out so as to weaken seriously, oreven kill outright, a good many ^
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