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Show Autumn-Planted Trees Are Best. The department of horticulture of the University of Missouri has conducted con-ducted an investigation to determine 'lie comparative merits of autumn and 6pring planting of apple trees. The results have shown that autumn-planted autumn-planted trees have, in the last five years, made uniformly a more vigorous vig-orous growth than spring-planted trees. In one year autumn-planted apple trees made double the amount of new growth on all their branches which was averaged by the spring-planted trees. In another season 50 per cent more growth was made by those planted In the spring. |