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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9223, 30 April 1908, Page 2

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. ♦ Advertisers are reminded that the Saturday Editions of the " Star " command a very WIDE CIRCULATION, reaching all classes, and that Orders for Advertisements 6hould reach the Office not later than Two O'clock. As the Counting-house closes at hilfpast four o'clock on Saturday afternoons, advertisements will be received after that hour in the Publishing Room itelow, or by the Printer in the Coml>osing Room on the third storey.

It is a matter of common observifttion that grass does not grow so well close to trees as in the open. The same is true of grains. Experiments in England and America haVe shown that tho deleterious effects of the near neighbourhood of grass and trees jft-o mutual. The trees suffer as well as the grass and grain. This is especially tru© of fruit trees. Tho cause is ascribod to tho excretion of the trees, on tho one hand, of substances poifsonous to the grass. It thus appears tha!-, the failure of grass to grow well near trees should not be ascribed to too much shade, nor to the exhaustion by the tree roots of the food supply nee-d---*ul hs_ tha itruss.