GROWTH OF FRUIT TREES ON GRASS LAND.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume IX, Issue 90, 23 February 1905, Page 2

GROWTH OF FRUIT TREES ON GRASS LAND.

One question which is much discussed seems to be finally settled by the Woburn experiments, namely, whether fruit trees do better or worse when planted in pastures. Four years after tho planting, when some of the trees were taken up and weighed, those on land under grass had increased by about only two-thirds of their original weight. Some comparative trials with grassed and badly-planted and neglected trees have led to tho conclusion that no ordinary form of bad treatmentincluding oven the combination of bad planting, growth of weeds, and total neglect—is so harmful to tho trees as growing grass around them. The grass has some actively malignant cfloct on tho tree, some action on it akin to that of direct poisoning.-” Quarterly RsyiowC’ 4