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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 3 Apr 1969, p. 10

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r 10 Weteries Chronicie, Thureday, April 3, 1909 While at the garden centre you can obtain the ingredients you don‘t have at home which are necessary to get the tree off to a good start. These include a good soil mixture to replace the soil removed when digging the planting hole, some peat moss, a bag of complete plant food or fertilizer, and a wooden stake to hold the tree upright. Before you leave the nursery or garden centre, make sure that the roots are completely covered Proper planting of a tree doesn‘t mean just digging a hole, placing the tree in it and filling up that hole with soil. If posâ€" ble it will pay you to go out to the nursery or garden centre and pick your own tree, bring it dirâ€" ectly home and plant it. Every spring the nurseryman gets a lot of blame he doesn‘t deserve when a shade or flowerâ€" ing tree fails to grow. Most failâ€" ures along this line are due to poor planting methods by the home gardener. It is certainly worth taking the time to plant & tree correctly. It‘s a proven fact that homes surrounded by good trees sell faster and at 15 to 20 percent higher prices. from enjoying one of the great pleagures of gardening. It‘s just because trees do outâ€" live us that we should plant them. I always remember a tiny graveâ€" yard where relatives are buried. ‘The old marble headstones have been split and are today almost impossible to read, but the pines planted four generations ago are magnificent â€" evidence that‘ the earlier generation planted well. By JOHN BRADSHAW All too often I hear people say: *"I‘m too old to plant a tree; it two in my lifetime." This attitude Even those not interested in posâ€" terity can plant trees with some assurance that they‘ll reach enâ€" joyable size in a few years. Pin oaks have been known to grow 32 inches a year; red oaks 48 inches; sugar maples 27, and the new thornless locusts 36 inches. 22 Dupont St. East, Hours: Daily 9 a.m. Fri. 9 am. â€" 9 p.m. Remodelling â€" Repair â€" Cleaning Also New Coats â€" Jackets â€" Stoles LORENZ FURS Paconi Deadstock Removal Ltd. Highest cash prices for dead or disabled cows and horses. Zenith 9â€"7950 1969 Lic. No. 185 C 69 Trimming done,. trees and stumps removed. Good serâ€" vice. Free estimates. Here‘s how to plant a shade tree Cold Fur Storage MOFFATT TREE REMOVAL 45 years exrperience BUSINESS AND SERVICES DIRECTORY at 743â€"9595 653â€"5848 Call For East, Waterioo Before heelingâ€"in newly receivâ€" ed trees and shrubs be sure to remove all packing material. Fill in the whole trench, gradualâ€" ly adding soil and firming it around the roots so that there will be no air spaces. Nursery stock can be left in such a trench for as much as two or three weeks without harm, but the sooner you can plant the better. Our nurserymen have developâ€" ed a me?fiod of transplanting trees and shrubs which they have found to be very successful. It‘s a methâ€" od known as root puddling. Before doing the actual plantâ€" ing you make up a heavy clay batter consisting of ordinary clay and water of a very thick conâ€" sistency. Make sure you stir well until the clay and water are evenly mixed. Then take the roots of the tree and sw ish them around in the clay batter. When the roots are thoroughly soaked, you remove them and sprinkle over some fine top soil. This will afford a protective coatâ€" If you cannot plant right away, then heel the tree out in the garâ€" den until you can. Heelingâ€"in simply means the storing of a dormant plant, like a tree, in a trench until conditions are favorâ€" able for planting. All you do is dig a trench 12 to 15 inches deep, making one side vertical and one side a long slope. Across the slope lay the tree with the roots extending to the bottom of the trench and facing the vertical side. nursery, or it is delivered to your house, get the planting operation underway. This could mean orâ€" dering the planting materials mentioned before, several days shead of the expected arrival of trees fail to grow because the roots are allowed to dry out beâ€" with damp burlap so that they Oxford Deadstock Removal Ltd. Highest cash prices for fresh dead or disabled cows, etc. Small animals picked up. 24 Hr. Service, 7 Day Week. Jim Murray & Son Call Collect Plattsville 684â€"7739 Cook‘s Pharmacy LET US CLEAN YOUR Rugs & Furniture cau HELM ®< 749 King St. West KITCHENER FREE DELIVERY Hickson 462â€"2614 or the plant at Licence 85C67 742â€"8488 576â€" in RUG that you can do this best by standing with your feet right in the hole. Of course you don‘t try be discarded and replaced with .to firm the soil into brick. A piece of an old rubber tire tube makes an excellent way of tying the tree to the stake. In _making this tie, be sure that you don‘t have it so tight that it will girdle the tree as it grows. Leave a saucerâ€"shaped depresâ€" sion around the trunk of the tree for watering purposes. It won‘t hurt to water the tree every day for the first two or three months. Whatever you do, don‘t let the roots dry out. In the bottom of the hole, place two handfuls of a complete plant food or fertilizer and cover this with two inches of the soil mixâ€" ture. Then make a mound of soil in the bottom of the hole to bring the soil level up to planting depth at the nursery. This is the time also to put the stake for the tree in place. By doing this now you will avoid damaging the roots laâ€" ter on. + Next, add three or four inches of the soil mixture and thoroughâ€" ly tramp or firm this around the roots so that there will be no air spaces. It‘s been my experience Add another two or three inchâ€" es of soil and firm again. Then fill the hole up with water and let this drain completely away before adding the remainder of To make doubly sure of good results, use two teaspoons of liâ€" quid plant food to one galion of water in the batter. We call this a starter solution which will give your plants extra reserve enerâ€" gy and a quicker start. planting, make sure that you dig a hole large enough to accommoâ€" date the roots without cramping them. 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