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soon as the leaves have fallen and continued until freezing weather 

 makes the ground unworkable. The sooner the plants are moved 

 after they have lost their leaves, however, the better, because root 

 growth does not cease with leaf growth and the plants should have 

 as much opportunity to get established before the ground hardens 

 as possible. 



Some shrubs or trees are moved with greater difficulty than 

 others, and it is wisest to defer planting these until spring; birches 

 and lombardy poplars are among this company — the latter fre- 

 quently kill back if they are moved in the fall, to one-half of their 

 height or more. Magnolias moved late in the fall are apt to be 

 unsuccessful, as are also most of the oaks, which at best are none 

 too easy to move. But aside from a few exceptions such as these, 

 the great body of deciduous shrubs and trees can be moved as well 

 in the fall as in the spring, and the rush of the spring garden 

 work greatly lessened thereby. 



The autumn season for transplanting evergreens begins sooner 

 than that for deciduous trees, because the former cease leaf growth 

 for the season earlier. From the last of August onward ever- 

 greens may be safely moved, and although my personal prefer- 

 ence is to finish the evergreen planting as early in the fall as pos- 

 sible, 1 have planted both conifers and broad-leaved evergreens 

 in December without loss. Care in preserving the roots, packing 

 the earth firmly about them, and a protecting mulch of leaves or 

 straw will go far toward insuring the life of these plants. 



Winter planting for trees both deciduous and evergreen is also 

 practiced successfully. The trees are prepared for this sort of 



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