Show BEST TIME TO PRUNE TRANSPLANTED TREES TREE Early Spring Has Been Most Generally Recommended Fear Has Deen Been Expressed That Branches Cut Back In F Fall ll Will N Not t Dry Out Sufficiently Sufficiently Re- Re suits of Missouri Station The time time to prune transplanted ed trees and young young trees not to be transplanted trans trans-S planted has been heen much discussed Early spring has hns been most generally recommended It Is the usual custom to prune back hack the branches of ot young trees tres when they are transplanted Sonic Some writers have recommended delaying de tie- laying pruning back fall fail transplanted trees until spring The precaution Often often of ot ten urged against cutting back the branches in the fall fail is that the tree loses looes too mu much h moisture through the tile cut surfaces of the twigs Fear has been expressed that the cut back branches will dry out sufficiently to kill Ill back bace badly during winter The question naturally arises as to whether more water will be lost through the thew w wounds of ot the cut twigs than would be transpired from Crom the branches were wera the they left l Intact In order to answer this question for Missouri conditions which are more or less typical of the central states general observations have been made on young oung trees pruned at different seasons seasons seasons sea sea- sons at the tile University or of Missouri College of Agriculture in the last twenty years The Time results uniformly indicate that better growth gro results If It the branches are cut cut back in the fall fail This holds true for young trees generally generally gener gener- ally whether they are transplanted In iii Inthe Inthe the time fall or spring or are not trans trall planted The same observations s are true of ot grapes A skillful I III ful grape propagator and grower at Hermann Mo has found that lint b grapes gapes make better growth If It back bacie In the le fall fail This grower sets his Ills cuttings In autumn as soon soon as the vines shied sHed their leaves anti and thereby successfully ly roots Norton C Cynthiana and other varieties found to root with difficulty if the cuttings are nr made and set in early spring H II further su says s 's that year one-year-old grapes designed to stand d a a second year In the nursery make much better growth If It pruned back In the fall also that lint bearing hearing grape vines make stronger I growth If pruned in autumn as soon soon us their leaves are are shed This is particularly particularly par par- true of varieties that tend to tomake tomake make malte poor renewal growth from from- the from tile the lower spurs That the tile water content of you young lit apple trees Is not greatly arr affected by fall all pruning was established by experiments experiments ex ox- In 1900 1900 and 1901 1001 at the University Uni bf of Missouri Little difference in water content content was found between cen apple trees transplanted In late falland fall falland and those which were ere not transplanted Also the trees whose branches were pruned back late In-late in late autumn contained on on the tile a average arage rage slightly more water than those hose which retained their branches While this difference Is not great It at least least Indicates Indicates that the pruned branches did not not- from dying drying out through the tile wounds but that on the contrary the time pruned trees treE dried out slightly less than tl tho ln which were not pruned |