TREE PLANTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1246, 24 June 1880, Page 2

TREE PLANTING.

[By S. J.I As the present is the time for tree planting, a few hints on the subject will not be out of season. One of the most important things is the preparation of the soil. A great many people think that all they have to do is to dig a hole in the ground, stick the tree in, cover it up, and then leave it, expecting it to do as well as their neighbors', who have gone very differently to work. The first thing that should be attended to in the cultivation of trees is the proper preparation of the soil, which will necessarily take some time. In planting an orchard, the land should be ploughed up in the summer so as to get a good fallow, which is of the greatest importance, having regard to the after management. When putting in the ground, care should be taken that each spot where a tree is placed is carefully dug and the earth pulverised, so as to give the young and tender roots of the plant such food as they require, as it must be borne in mind that as an infant requires different nourishment from an adult person, so does a young tree require peculiar nursing and care to develop it. The greater care and attention paid to it for the first two or three years, the less it requires, comparatively speaking, afterj wards. And now a few words on the I planting of the tree. Having decided where you want it, dig a hole proportionate to the depth occupied by the tree previously, place it in, spread the roots out, put in some fine earth, then press firmly down with the feet. Never allow a hollow round the tree, but let the earth slightly incline from it, so that no water can lodge round it. All that is required afterwards is to keep it clear of weeds, and during the summer to hoe frequently and keep the soil well stirred. This is important, as it not only keeps the ground from getting hard and baked, but it is as good as a watering, the moisture of the air having free access. Trees repay the little trouble taken with them, and if they are worth planting at all surely they are worth properly attending to. Often have I seen orchards and plantations tilled with stunted, cankered trees, covered with moss, looking worse than they were when planted perhaps ten years before. Land used in this way is merely wasted and ought to have been put to some better purpose. It is of little use to plant trees unless they can be looked after: it ia work which had far better never have been done. Planting should be done in line weather, as the ground is then more easily worked, and does not get hard and baked afterwards.

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