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Setting Out Cuttings in the Trench: This picture shows Mr. Burbank's method of setting out cuttings in the trench prepared in the way shown on page 133. The soil on one side of the trench should be pressed against the cutting, and firmly packed with the hand, no other implement being required at this stage.

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Title: Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; prepared from his original field notes covering more than 100,000 experiments made during forty years devoted to plant improvement
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 Whitson, John John, Robert Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943 Luther Burbank Society
Subjects: Plant breeding
Publisher: New York, Luther Burbank Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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terwards be cultivated by horsepower in theusual way. In general the treatment here described isemployed for cactus, berries, lilies, begonias,grasses, potatoes, roses, ferns, or any of thethousands of species of domestic, foreign, arctic,or tropic seeds which are received from collectors. In transplanting, it is best to have the boxesof plants carried into the field, and with mostplants it is best to saturate the soil in the boxes,letting them drain a little before attempting totransplant. Then with a trowel they may be takenup with the dirt surrounding the roots and set out. After marking the rows with a garden line, along narrow crevice is cut by inserting a flat spadeand moving the handle back and forth a fewinches. The plants can be rapidly placed in thecrevice thus made. One side of the soil is presseddown with the foot or with a tamper, and packedquite firmly against the roots. Then more soil is drawn in with a hoe or rakeand carefully placed about each plant, after which (134)
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Setting Out Cuttings in the Trench This picture shows Mr. Burbanks method of setting out cuttings in the trench prepared in the way shown on page 133. The soil on one side oj the trench should be pressed against the cutting, and firmly packed with the hand, no other implement being required at this stage. LUTHER BURBANK a common garden rake is used in leveling andloosening up the soil along each side of the row,which prevents baking and helps to keep thetemperature equable and the soil moist. Themost tender plants treated in this way are savedalmost without exception. Out in the Open Nearly all plants should be set out in the fieldsomewhat deeper than they grow in the boxes.When plants have long roots these should bestraightened out and placed as deeply as possiblein the soil to give them a good start by the timethe dry summer weather commences. Otherwisethe young plants could not, in some cases, extendtheir roots fast enough to keep up with thegradually disappearing moisture, and so

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