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Show PLANTING OF TREES SHOULD BE DELAYED Little or No Root Action Takes Place Until Surface of Ground Begins to Freeze. (Prepared by the tTnlted fltntes Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Because of probable Injury by loss of vitality fall plantjng of fruit trees should be delayed until late November or eurly December. In sections of the North where cold weather prohibits planting at that time It Is usually best to wait until spring. Apple trees can bo set out with safety in the fall further fur-ther north thun pencil trees und other lew hardy kinds. At the Missouri experiment station It recently has been shown that little or no root action takes place with fall-planted fall-planted trees until the surface of the . ground has begun to freeze, and the trees planted early In the fall muy lose considerable vitality befure they begin root action. |