Professor Smith: If they had calloused in cold storage was it because they had been too warm?
Mr. White: No sir. If you will take a tree that you want to set out and cover the roots until you can set it out, you will find the callous forming no matter if the ground is frozen hard.
Professor Smith: You mean a tree planted in the fall?
Mr. White: Yes sir.
Mr. Pomeroy: Where one had no cold storage what would he do?
The President: If you haven't cold storage, such as Evansville affords, and have an ice house you can use that. It is very important to pack the scions in excelsior and sawdust and be sure there is very slight moisture, and to paper line your boxes. Colonel Sober keeps chestnut scions by standing them on end in cans. He fills in with a thin layer of sawdust, punches holes for them to breathe, puts a lid on and sets them in the ice house and says they keep splendidly.
Professor Smith: In an ordinary ice house?
The President: Yes sir.
Colonel Sober: I have kept them that way for two years.
Mr. White: Dr. Morris will tell you the next best thing if you haven't cold storage.