Nursery Landscape Manual 151 -200

To develop a bushy plant, it is important to periodically:

• Root prune the plant

• Remove the terminal buds of the branches

• Soak the plant with nematicide

• Remove the lateral buds of the branches

The correct way to treat pot-bound container plants is to :

• Throw them away

• Cut the roots and transplant them into a larger pot

• Do not disturb the root ball and plant immediately into the soil

• Plant in fresh new soil

A soil is at the correct moisture content for potting if:

• Approximately two tablespoons of water can be squeezed from one handful of soil

• Water can be easily squeezed from the soil

• When it is squeezed in the palm of the hand it will not make a ball

• When squeezed in the palm of the hand, it makes a loosely held ball

The trend in nursery crop production is toward more ____ plants and less field grown plants.

• Container grown

• Greenhouse grown

• Balled and burlapped

• Bareroot

Balled and burlapped plants are set in the planting hole at a depth

• of one-half the depth of the root ball.

• equal to the depth at which it grew in the nursery.

• 3 inches above the surrounding soil line.

• 1 inch above the original soil line.

The form of a tree is a characteristic that describes

• the shape of the tree.

• the way the roots are treated for transplanting.

• whether it is evergreen or deciduous.

• how it is pruned.

Bare root deciduous trees are planted only when they

• can be dug into the ground.

• are dormant.

• are beginning to leaf.

• are in full leaf.

Bare root trees are dug when the trees are dormant and are shipped

• early in the spring.

• with no soil on the roots.

• for fall planting.

• with a layer of soil on the roots.

Balled and burlapped trees are shipped

• with a ball of soil around the roots wrapped in burlap.

• with bare roots.

• in early spring for immediate planting.

• in early fall for immediate planting.

Seedlings are ready to be transplanted from their germination flats when they have:

• Been sufficiently hardened off

• Grown Cotyledons

• Growth their first true leaves

• Answers A and C are correct