PLANTING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 2 August 1913, Page 10

PLANTING.

Where autumn planting has been deferred owing to heavy rams having rendered tho soil unsuitable for planting, the month of August will provide favorable opportunitttU. Every advantage should be takeu of the fine weather that usually prevails at intervals during next month. Peaches and Japanese plums especially should receive early attention, to be followed by the planting of other fruits "that are later in eoniing into bud and blossom. PRUNING. The winter pruning of the orchard should ueverd he overlooked. It this very necessary work has not been cairiecl out, attention should be paid to it without delay. It is altogether unwise lo allow a season to .P^^^hout Piunm<* fruit trees, as it is a difficult matter anil one involving more or less loss ot crop, to bring the trees into suitable shape again.