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CERTAIX ELEikIENTS IN NURSERY PRACTICE 189of conditions of weather and trade, and they insure to theplanter quick delivery of stock that shows no winter injury.A ~~mmm~~ style of nursery cellar is shown in Fig. 207 andanother in 20s ; a combined stora,ge- and packing-house ispresented in Fig. 2(K). The store-house is provided with amplefacilities for ventil,ztion, either by means of windows alongthe 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 laidFIG. 209. CI ml)iwcl st.or:igc- :tncl pnrkiug-house.Q.in opposite (Iircctiolls. The roots of t,he first layer are laidtcJ\VillYlS tllc center aiitl damp sand thrown over them. Onthcw i11~ &lit1 the roots of the second layer, with the tops inthe opposite (lire(:ti~bll. IGuth is again thrown on, when anotherla)x~ like the first is :ul&rl. The tops, therefore, are always011twi1rt1. 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, scantlingsor IHMI’~S arc oftran laid crosswise of the layers, at the outward~1, at intcrv;&. Ness may be used in place of sand, althoughtile li~tt~‘l’ is Iklortf CW5il)v r)btaint~d ill1c-l. kept, ant! is generallyustd. In pitiny or (*orcling trees in tllis fashion, it is importanttllilt 11 suf-I+ieut ])ilSSit$’ (11 i~llPJr IW left between each pile t0ildlllit Of fIVlt> (4nqlltlfioll of ilir. A ps~agc through which aman (*:L,n just. pass is sufir:ient. A cellar me hundred feet