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Show ORDER FRUIT TREES EARLY Because It Is Shipped Too Late Large Amount of Nursery Stock Fails to Grow. Order your nursery stock early, advises ad-vises C. V. Holsinger of the horticultural horticul-tural extension department at Iowa State college. The amount of nursery stock, which falls to grow is startling, more thnn 50 per cent in many cases, and all because It is shipped too late and not because it is inferior stock, as is often supposed. ' In the fall plants and trees store reserve re-serve food from which the first growth In the spring is made before the roots start. When plants grow in storage, this reserve is wasted and after planting plant-ing the stock dies before the roots get started. It Is therefore essential thnt leaves and roots start together. Stored nursery stock will not start to grow until late, so it is possible to get it planted while still in the dormant condition. |