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CERTAIX ELEikIENTS IN NURSERY PRACTICE 189
of conditions of weather and trade, and they insure to the
planter quick delivery of stock that shows no winter injury.
A ~~mmm~~ style of nursery cellar is shown in Fig. 207 and
another in 20s ; a combined stora,ge- and packing-house is
presented in Fig. 2(K). The store-house is provided with ample
facilities for ventil,ztion, either by means of windows along
the sides or flues in the roof, or both. It has an earth floor.
Tn this IGlding, the trees are heeled-in very thickly in the fall.
They ciththr arc stood straight up, or they may be piled in tiers.
‘l’hcs~ tiers are rrmle up of overlapping horizontal layers laid
FIG. 209. CI ml)iwcl st.or:igc- :tncl pnrkiug-house.
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in opposite (Iircctiolls. The roots of t,he first layer are laid
tcJ\VillYlS tllc center aiitl damp sand thrown over them. On
thcw i11~ &lit1 the roots of the second layer, with the tops in
the opposite (lire(:ti~bll. IGuth is again thrown on, when another
la)x~ like the first is :ul&rl. The tops, therefore, are always
011twi1rt1. TIWW tops should lit II litt,le higher than the roots,
allcl ill or&r to raise tflthtn, ilii(l also to bind the pile, scantlings
or IHMI’~S arc oftran laid crosswise of the layers, at the outward
~1, at intcrv;&. Ness may be used in place of sand, although
tile li~tt~‘l’ is Iklortf CW5il)v r)btaint~d ill1c-l. kept, ant! is generally
ustd. In pitiny or (*orcling trees in tllis fashion, it is important
tllilt 11 suf-I+ieut ])ilSSit$’ (11 i~llPJr IW left between each pile t0
ildlllit Of fIVlt> (4nqlltlfioll of ilir. A ps~agc through which a
man (*:L,n just. pass is sufir:ient. A cellar me hundred feet