. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . it is important that a sufficient passage or alley beleft between each pile to admit of free circulation of air.A passage through which a man can just pass is sufficient. WINTER STORING OF TREES. I45 A cellar a hundred feet long, twenty feet wide, and ten feethigh in the clear, will winter about 25,000 three-year-oldapple trees, if the trees are corded, as already described.These storage cellars soon engender mold or fungus ifthey are allowed to become too warm or too close. Cel-lars with floors as high as the surface of th
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. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . it is important that a sufficient passage or alley beleft between each pile to admit of free circulation of air.A passage through which a man can just pass is sufficient. WINTER STORING OF TREES. I45 A cellar a hundred feet long, twenty feet wide, and ten feethigh in the clear, will winter about 25, 000 three-year-oldapple trees, if the trees are corded, as already described.These storage cellars soon engender mold or fungus ifthey are allowed to become too warm or too close. Cel-lars with floors as high as the surface of the ground keepsweeter than those which are sunken. The remedy forthis fungus, which often does great damage to stock, is tokeep the house well aired, and then to kill it out by fumi-gating. A common practice is to bum shavings or sawdustin the cellar, and then open the doors and windows and airthe place. If the smudge is dense, the fungus is said to beeasily destroyed. Evaporating sulphur—not burning it—upon an oil stove is also effective. Place the sulphur in a. ■ -^P^- 143. storage cellar. pan and set this pan in another of about the same size, in thebottom of which is a layer of sand a half inch thick. Placeboth of them upon the stove, and allow the sulphur to meltand evaporate, filling the house with the fumes. The layerof sand will prevent the sulphur from catching fire, unless itis allowed to run over. Burning sulphur quickly kills allplants which are in active growth. Its action upon dormantnursery stock is unknown to the writer. A low temperatureand an abundance of fresh air, however, are the best safe-guards against fungus. They are also essential to the pre-servation of the bright, vivid color of the stock. Treeswhich are wintered in close and warm cellars look dull inthe spring. The temperature should be kept as near freez- ;t46 GRAFTAGE. ing as possible. When the stock is not being handled, aslight frost does no damage. In heeling-in trees in the open for the w