Nursery Stock from out-of-town nurseries may arrive during freezing weather and must receive careful attention. If it has been frozen, the following procedure is recommended:

1. Do not open the packages! This is most important.

2. Place in a cool room such as a cellar where the temperature is above freezing.

3. Cover the packages with peat moss, earth, sawdust or any material which will exclude air.

4. Keep covered until all the frost is out of the packages. The stock may be kept safely for two or three weeks or even longer if covered properly in a cool place.

5. After all frost is out of the packages, the stock may be unpacked and heeled in outside, providing the weather is above freezing and the soil workable. Select a well drained place, heel the stock rather deeply and if the plants are kinds liked by rabbits, protect them with wire netting.

Learn to know our native trees both in summer when they are in leaf and now when their bareness discloses clearly the pattern of form and branching habits. Consider their natural location, form, color, texture of bark, twig growth, bud characteristics and the kinds of leaves or old fruits either remaining on the tree or beneath it. Search Amazon for some good books about trees:

Limbs on young trees do not move higher from the ground as the tree grows, but remain exactly the same distance from the ground until death or until they are removed. The tree gains height only at the tip.

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