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TO LATER GROW

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let 5 years
6th	year
7th	N
8 th	H
9 th	N
10th	N

Total Hei^t

Diameter at Ground Line

Diameter at Breast Height

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RECEIVZD ★ JUN 3 1340 ★

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RELATtOtFbf care TO LATER GROWTH

IN PLANTING OF THE TREE

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Poorly Properly Planted Pleated Tree Tree

let 5 yoart 6th year

8 th

9 th 10th

.4 feat 1.9 feet

.3 « 1.0 »

.3 • 1.0 "

.5 " 1.3 *

.« " 1.6 »

.7 “ 1.3 "

Total Height 3*0 feet 6.1 feet

Diameter at

Ground Line l.S inchee U»3 Inches Diameter at

Breast Height 1«7 Inches

THIS TBSE fflS PROPXELT PLANTED

United States Department of Agriculture

ALLEGHENY FOREST EXPERIMENT STATION

THE SUALL THEE IN THE FQBSOROUHD US IHPH0PSBL7 PUNTED

THE BOOTS OF THIS TREE WERE FOUND TO BE WELL DISTRIBUTED, WITH A SINGLE TAP-ROOT EXTENDING DOWNHAED,

AT THE TINE THIS TREE WAS PLANTED THE TWO kAIN ROOTS WERE BENT SHARPLY TO THE SIDE, AND WERE NOT PROPERLY SPREAD APART. THIS WAS PROBABLY DUB TO PLANTING IN TOO SHALLOW A HOLE.

TRANSPLANTS IN MAY, 1929 , NEAR MARIENVILLE, PENNSYLVANU. THE CENTER-HOLE METHOD WAS USED. IN TI PALL OF 1938 THE ROOTS WERE EXCAVATED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE, IF POSSIBLE, THE REASON FOR THE DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT GROWTH OF THE TWO TREES.

BY PROPERLY SPREADING THE ROOTS AT THE TIME OF PLANTING, THE AMOUNT OF "FEEDING tREA" MORE FIRMLY IN THE GROUND.

AVAILABLE TO THE TREE IS INCREASED, AND THE TREE IS ABLE TO ANCHOR ITSELF