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Planting the first fruit tree on the Experimental Farm of the North Carolina State Horticultural Society, Southern Pines, North Carolina, April 4, 1895.

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Title: Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Agriculture
Publisher: (Raleigh, N.C.?) : Board of Agriculture
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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re puddled by dipping in a barrel of water, andthen while wet were covered with soil. The trees, after planting,were headed to a uniform head of eighteen inches. The first tree 182 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1896. set out on the Experimental Farm was an Abundance Plum, onApril 4th, 1895, at 12 m., (Fig. 9) in the presence of H. L. Thurston,B. von Herff, D. D. F. Cameron, B. W. Kilgore, H. B. Battle, and twolaborers. It is hoped thai the name of the plum will be typical, of the ben-eficial results to accrue from the experimental work. The Peaches were next set oat, on April 6th, and in the samemanner as the plums. The Grapes were planted on April 9th, dur-ing which time a beneficial rain fell. The vines w» re cut to twobuds, and were 4 to 6 inches high. The roots were left from 8 to12 inches in length Stakes fibout six feet long were subsequentlydriven beside each vine, to which the shoots w^re tied as they ^rew.The stakes will give place to a wire trellis the second year.
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Fig. 9.—Planting the first fruit tree on the Experimental Farm, April 4th, 1895. The Blackberries were planted on April 910, though the last eightseries were planted later, on the 23d. The plants were cut back to2 to 4 buds and the same height as the grapes. The roots werepruned to 6 and 8 inches. In order to protect the plants from theeffect of the very hot sun, a mulching of long-leaf pine straw (Fig.10) was placed upon each plat at the rate of one one-horse load, aver-aging 165 lbs. per plat. This was done on April 24th and 25th. The cultivation of the plat after planting was shallow, so that nodamage to the root systems could iesult. The implements used forthe purpose were the Iron Age and Planet Jr. one-horse cultivators.The treatment was repeated at intervals of ten to thirteen days, asthe condition of the soil demanded it, until August 1st. No weedsappeared in any of the plats, except a few Euphorbias and fire-weeds HORTICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS DURING 1895. 183 (Erechtites), but

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