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Bare-Root Plants: A Gardening Bargain Print E-mail
Tips for Planting Bare-root Fruit Trees and Roses by Kathy Nichols
Bare-root plants aren't too impressive at first glance. They're large leafless sticks with a knobby end wrapped in plastic, giving little hint as to what they might become after planting.

Lined up in rows at local nurseries, bare-root trees and roses may look somewhat mysterious to the uninitiated. But what the bare roots lack now in attractiveness, they make up for in several other ways.
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