. Agriculture for southern schools. ll among the staminateor perfect varieties : Excelsior (early), Lady Thompsonand Klondike (rather early and hardy), Gandy (large andlate). Strawberry plants need to be well fertilized with a com-plete fertilizer. The bed should be renewed every fewyears because young plants bear more fruit than old start a new bed set the young plants that formwhere the runners take root. When a fruit tree is old enough to transplant. — Anurseryman does not count the age of a tree from thetime the seed is planted, but from the time of budding orgrafting it. Peach tre
. Agriculture for southern schools. ll among the staminateor perfect varieties : Excelsior (early), Lady Thompsonand Klondike (rather early and hardy), Gandy (large andlate). Strawberry plants need to be well fertilized with a com-plete fertilizer. The bed should be renewed every fewyears because young plants bear more fruit than old start a new bed set the young plants that formwhere the runners take root. When a fruit tree is old enough to transplant. — Anurseryman does not count the age of a tree from thetime the seed is planted, but from the time of budding orgrafting it. Peach trees are ready to transplant one yearafter the budding has been done. The apple tree is trans-planted when either one, two, or three years old. Setting a fruit tree. — The time to set a fruit treeis after the leaves fall and before the buds swell in the 220 AGRICULTURE spring to form new leaves. The period from Novemberto February is the usual time for setting fruit trees in theSouthern states. The holes should be so dug that the. ^ liy It. S. A!a:-kiiitosh Fig. 148. — Packing Peaches in Bullock County, Ala. roots will not need to be bent. All bruised or brokenroots should be cut off with a smooth cut, which healsmore quickly than a ragged break. FRUITS 221 The very long roots may also be cut back. In settingtrees keep all roots straight. The earth taken from nearthe top of the hole is generally the richest, so this soilshould be placed near the roots. The earth must be firinTypacked around the roots so as to keep them thoroughlymoist. If the soil were put in without packing, air-spaceswould be left and the roots would become dry. The upperlayer of soil, however, must be left loose as a mulch to re-tain the water in the lower layers. If a tree is loosenedbefore it has formed a full set of roots, it is apt to diebecause the shaking causes air-spaces to be left aroundthe roots instead of moist soil. The tree ought to be setin the ground at least as deep as it grew
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