PLANTING FRUIT TREES.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 February 1875, Page 3

PLANTING FRUIT TREES.

A few words regarding a point in Connection ' with this subject, which does not Often receive the'attention'it Veil deserves tiiay hot be inexpedient or ill-timed. ... We allude to the -soil rip which it is intended the treesare.to grow, and more especially to-that for wall and house trees; We are'strongly .pf opinion that many of the ills and failures of fruit trees—infertibility, debility, decay, &C., so^ generally, and without due thought or careful inyestj-, ■^anoh^-ftttHbut(Bd'flippantl-jrH'6'''Wt^s-pheric influences, blight, insects, and tyhat not, would, if sought for, be found to have their origin in what wasthpught to'be a'matter'of small, 'of-*, indeed, irb tnorhent at the time of plahtirigi 7 ' We •Allude to the presence in' the Boil ■ of leaves, leaf mould, stray bits of wood, -6breJ .'Or: bljher: vegetable' matter calcti-^ iated to promote the growth of thet mycelriitri {or r spawn' of various 'fungi: This is ah evil'of the- first'm'agnitude^ rind' "Iso many instances of its baneful* consequences have come under, our. notice, not alone in the mattftr of fruit Mfes;' btit also;a*s re^a^dis'speciiinens ot choice cdnJifers^ &6J? tba^We cahAot too Strongly irtprersS si ori' burrea'ders the greatest caution, when preparing borders for a number, or even . a supplyj-of pabulum for ' a single' tree. K Scarcely necessary to say that we altogether deprecate the use of manures,^ the. composition of soif,for When riburi'shrnent " is 1", required, its proper and: efiecti^e 'adminisiration isi m the way of. surface, mulchings.or Liquid. .Qood, sound, ar^b|e4?am(or, | maiden earth —simple, nutritious, and ; whole^nie^bohtaiii' 411 v ttie* elements fjor°rrtfit ts'e^r^hitfem^nb^and* 5 is Hhd pabnldm- which*," if'possible;; theCfruit grower should>iri the'firstinst&iice. yfo~\ vide.them with.; ; Even jn .regard^ of freßh[,l6am> some cautioh is required,"as . i!f x of W Ir&yWtf'to h fi^oW"cK JaracM f th^'felbwiy^eba^irt^ fflhffe&ptiSi&tf'm- ' dry season^ l, ' l $ Si iidt? Hihh^f-t*^ j^tfheWif c* the/f €hril/<*and -wrap- the >unhappy roOtS iii the death: folds of the fungoid wind* ing-rsheet. -■-„• -„». ■• - -, •* **--. -*; „,. s.?

. \ Mr Shellcrbss, who resides near jMiddletown, . Delaware, owns one of M%TgmimvoTc%Mm^^mhm Estimated that he lost, by^bfeing'unablfc" tKprnqyre labpry-tq,^ pick, ..abo|it .^^,({ool Baskets , •nojoreu. ',(}n : . , sa^s ;I ,he . ~lba3ea a '^m**hls "'oronsM' ten^railway ' Waggon loads. 'IVff.SKelrci'oss's or^bli^ Reaches along-i.tbe-pubjicsroad for more : than eight miles — generally on either >gide— and covers an extent pf upwards &«$&&! ] .f* WittSßftft Q^AAAyr \ m Oiogo. & mrwg th* mttwo months ih th^yejft^.Xinthe. seaboard, 3fc&&h, i *- c *^^\-tf-«*' **t* * •et-* ■»**• ■»'**•'*■ » .» ... "g^JW«&®iße^nißgi.*^ : A^^^lnQ^ :oe to* late. 14 j^ctoble. to. sow at )Ku>nerr rand -fn-Ora-aveaJ-^ othamd-aring^ grow during the months nMecs, .