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The Bulletin. 



TIME FOE TRANSPLANTING PECAN TREES. 



I have found that the best season for setting pecan trees is in the 

 fall. They can be shipped from the nursery and set in the orchard 

 just as soon as the leaves have fallen, showing that the buds are 



Fig. 9. — Seedling Pecan Trees, Showing Characteristic Root Systems. 

 (Photo by H. H. Hume, Glen Saint Mary, Florida.) 



mature. Starting with this season, pecan trees can be set anywhere 

 in the pecan area at any time during the winter up to budding-out 

 time in spring. Eecords on the growth of the trees at our different 



