ORCHARD EXPERIMENTS
MAIDSTONE, Eng., Aug. 2. Experiments which are being made at the East Mailing Research Station, near here, may causo a fundamental revision in the method of planting orchards. They are being carried out by Mr. W. Stephen Rogers, the assistant pomologist to the station, who has discovered that while it was previously believed that the spread of the roots roughly equalled tho spread of tho branches, healthy trees have a root spread approximately three times that of tho branches. This means that apple growers seem to have been planting; their trees too close together, and to have been manuring them too near the trunks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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106ORCHARD EXPERIMENTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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