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Tamper; Tamping the Dirt around the Cuttings: the setting out of cuttings is completed by tamping the dirt rather firmly about them, either with the foot or with a tamper like the one here shown. It is well to stir the surface subsequently with an ordinary rake to loosen the soil at the surface, so that it will not "bake". The picture shows also a typical wooden marker, which in this case records that the cuttings are the roots of Standard stoneless plums

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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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reated 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 mightdie of thirst. When seedlings are removed from the pro-tection of the glass house to the open air, or intransplanting in the fields, it is best, if possible,to choose a time when there are no severewinds, and when the sun is not too hot and theatmosphere neither too dry nor too chilly. Generally in California tender plants bestwithstand moving from the greenhouse to theopen air just before or during a warm rain. Atsuch times the atmosphere is similar to that inthe greenhouse. Even under the most favorable (136)
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Tamping the Dirt Around the Cuttings The selling out oj cuttings is completed by tampingthe dirt rather firmly about them, either uith the foot or witha tamper like the one here shown. It is well to stir the surface subse-quently with an ordinary rake to loosen the soil at the surface,so that it will not bake. The picture shows also atypical wooden marker, ivhich in this caserecords that the cuttings are theroots of Standard stone-less plums. LUTHER BURBANK circumstances they must be shielded from windsor bright sunlight to which they are not adapted. To accustom the tender seedlings to out-doorconditions, the flats are placed in square framesabout six feet wide and a foot or two high. Theseare covered with a portable covering made ofcommon laths nailed on narrow strips of board,so placed that the space between the laths is aboutequal to the width of a single lath. When the boxes of plants are placed in theseframes, it is best to have some slats underneathso they will not rest on the

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