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Agricultural Gazette of N.S.JF. [Aug. o, 1908. 



Orcljard I\otes. 



\V. J. ALI.KX. 



August. ' 



Almonds. — The nuts whiili lniriL; tlic highest prices in the Culit'oniian 

 market a ic the Nonjiureil, which stand at the top, followed liv I.X.L. and 

 Ne Plus Ultra respectively. C)ne of the \arieties coming into j)rominence is 

 tlie Texas Prolific, which is rather a round-shaped nut, hlooms late, and is a 

 prolific bearer. The tree is an upright, strong grower. 31r. .J. P. Dargity, 

 who is a large almond-grower in California, speaks very highly of this latter 

 variety. G. C. Roeding places tlie .Jordan as the best hai'd shell almond 

 gi'ovving in California. 



NiDiiher of trees or phnits to the acre. — Square method: Multijily the 

 distance in feet between the rows by the distance the trees are apart in the 

 rows, and the result will be the number of square feet for each plant or tree, 

 which, divided into 43,5(30 feet (the number of feet in an acre), will give the 

 number of trees to an acre. 



Equilateral triangle : Divide the number required to the acre (square 

 method) by '866, and the result a\ ill be the number of trees or plants required 

 to the acre by this method. 



The following are some of the trees which should lu' giown iiioir cxtcnsiNely 

 than they are as shelter belts and wind breaks : — 



Kurrajonqs. — The Kurrajong is worthy of being planted extensively in all 

 the drier and warmer j)arts of the State. It is indigenous to Australia and 

 a good stan(ibv duiing droughty years. It is necessaiy to protect it from the 

 stock for the first few years else they will eat it out, but when once it is 

 established and large enough not to be damaged by the stock tlieic is no more 

 beautiful tree grown. Everybody should jjlant these trees extensively; in 

 fact there should l)e millions of them growing whei'e at present there are 

 only hundreds. 



Caroh Bean is another "ood shade ti-ee, and the beans are yood for feeding 

 to the stock. After grinding them uji we feed them to our horses at the Pera 

 Bore orchard. 



