Potatoes in Young Orchards.
There is no particular objection in cropping a young orchard with potatoes. Newly Bet trees are entitled to the test cultivation, and they are more likely to Ret it with & hoed and cultivated crop. In this way, too, weeds may be extirpated, bo that when the trees get into bearing, and it may be neoessary to eeed and manure en the eurfaoe to induce fruitfulacsa, the orchard may be almost made into a lawn. A well- tilled potato crop will not iojuro the trees, provided it be remembered ia cultivating that a hill ot potatoes in not to be saved at tbo expense pt the trees.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1629, 5 October 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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110Potatoes in Young Orchards. Tuapeka Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1629, 5 October 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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