Newton Nursery dipping transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery.
A close up shot of unidentified nursery workers in protective clothing and masks hand dipping bundles of Sitka spruce into a tank containing insecticide. The insecticide was used to help reduce the attacks by pine weevils on newly planted trees in restocking sites which if not protected often resulted in high death rates of planted trees.
The bundles which have had their foliage and stems (not roots) dipped in the tank are laid on a draining board to allow the excess liquid to drain back into the dipping tank. Once dripped for a little while the bundles are then placed in a trailer and towed away to be sheughed into soil trenches in the nursery to await transport to the forests.
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