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Frank wrote:

On Apr 18, 2:44*am, Ablang wrote:
I was at the nursery and I noticed, especially for the fruit trees,
that they had white paper sleeves around the trunks of the trees...

Does anyone know why they do that, and will that benefit other trees
as well?

Will keep bunnies from nibbling the bark in the winter. Sleeves also
offer some protection from buck deer rubs.

There is the issue of sun scald too.

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/Ptlk/2111.html

I remember some people painted their tree's with white wash (Lime) but
have not seen that in a long time. Mostly peach trees and apple.

Bill

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