Gardening Notes.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1793, 10 February 1886, Page 3

Gardening Notes.

The autumn is the beet time to transplant all coniferous and evergreen trees, as they are able to get established before the cold wintry trees in a weather sets in. I have see people plant paddle in the deptbof winter end then be astonished because they did not grow. Plants of this kind (coniferous) require beat as well as moisture. Planting should therefore commence in April in the Wairarapa and could be continued until the end of May. Deciduous trees also do better planted early in the winter, say May and June. But I often find people in the planting season require large trees, ten and twelve feet high, transplanted. Anyone thinking of doing this, now is the time to make a commencement, by digging a trench all round the tree that it is proposed to remove, cutting the roots and tap root with a sharp spade ; then fill up the trench again and let i* remain until the autumn. If it is carefully removed there is very little fear of its dying. And while on this subject I may ssy it set ms a great pity that people will plant forest trees so near their bouses. It is unhealthy and in a few years they have to be cut down, leaving a blank where they have stood. If they had been planted at a proper distance they would have been, '• a thing of beauty and of joy for ever.' 1 Bita.