Aug. 3, 1908.] Ag)^?cul(ural Gazette of N.S.W. 



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Oriental Plane is a beautiful shade tree to grow in our more moist and 

 cooler districts. It grows quickly and makes a good shade and wind break 

 during summer months, but being deciduous it loses its leaves in the winter. 



GreviUea Rohnsta is another indigenous tree, and is well worth a place as 

 an ornamental tree. 



Sugar Gums, although great robbers, make a good quick-growing wind break. 



The Pepper-tree does well in most of the warm districts of the State, is a 

 quick grower, and makes a good shelter for stock, but it is a great robber, and 

 the wood is of little use. 



Peach-tree which has been pruned every season since planting— ten years old. 



Graftinq. — The latter part of this month is a good time to start the 

 grafting of deciduous nursery stock, and should there be any unprofitable 

 apple, pear, or other trees standing in the orchard, these also may be grafted 

 to good varieties. Grape vines are easily grafted just as the buds are well 

 swollen and about to burst. Old peach, plum, and apricot trees will be found 

 much harder to graft than either apple or pear-trees. If, however, there are 

 any such in the orchard which are unprofitable, it would be as well to cut 



