THE ORHARD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 896, 3 May 1889, Page 19

THE ORHARD.

YOUNG FRUIT TREESMy experience would dictate the planting of very young fruit trees, the younger the better. Dormant buds are the best. I see largo quantities of trees shipped in here from the nurseries of the upper country, that are two or three years old and even older. Trees like these have too large a top to support for the amonnt of fibrous roots they contain, and in order te be made to live must necessarily be cut back very much to the detriment of the tree. It may look like a slow way to get fruit, to plant the dormant buds, but in a few years the dormant buds will bo far ahead of the two and three-year-old trees. I have tested the dormant buds, and I know what lam talking about. In March, ISB6, 1 put out a small orchard. I used all dormant buds except eighteen trees. These were one and two year trees. Seme of my trees from the buds are now three times the size of the older ones, and by far the beßt shaped and thriftiest trees, and hear more and larger fruit. 1 have peach trees planted as above, from dormant buds, over twelve feet high. The idea is just this. The roots get a good start before there is any drain on them from the top. If you get a good root you will gat a good tree, but without it you never will. If any poison doubt this theory let them come to my place, three and one-half miles east of Paso Robles, on the Iluer Heuro, aud I will try and convince them, and not charge a cent for the trouble. — W. G. Gufy, in Paso Robles Leader.