Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . TOO LOW ANDIN A HOLLOW l)ruised or broken roots, and never let them dry. Dip them in mud, place in hole, throw good soil in hole, tightly ramming it around roots after each shovelful. Leave no air-pockets. After hole is filled, cover top of ground thick-ly with good, well-rotted stable manureas far as roots extend. Look out for crown and root all such trees. Crown gall is acommon disease in many nurseries andit attacks all kinds of fruit trees. It isthe worst kind of follyto
Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . TOO LOW ANDIN A HOLLOW l)ruised or broken roots, and never let them dry. Dip them in mud, place in hole, throw good soil in hole, tightly ramming it around roots after each shovelful. Leave no air-pockets. After hole is filled, cover top of ground thick-ly with good, well-rotted stable manureas far as roots extend. Look out for crown and root all such trees. Crown gall is acommon disease in many nurseries andit attacks all kinds of fruit trees. It isthe worst kind of follyto plant a tree which has a trace of this disease, for not only is the tree pretty sure to die be-fore it comes into full bearing but the infection may be spread to all parts of the orchard. If galls (knotty, TREE SET bunchy swellings) are found at the properly
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