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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

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Lon J. Rombough wrote:
> The tree, not the truck, went in the hole.
>
> On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:
>
> I moved an apple that was at least ten years old one time. It was 
> Cox's Orange Pippin on seedling and it filled the back of a pickup 
> truck. I took a circle of roots nearly six feet in diameter. When I 
> got it to it's new home I dug a hole large enough to accommodate the 
> whole root mass, backed the truck up to the hole, and slid it in. 30 
> years later it's still growing and blooming by our house.
> -Lon Rombough