Planting and mounding up of the young trees takes place in the early 

 winter months. No shoots are allowed to grow from the plant except a few 

 from the summit, which are grafted in the summer. With the return of 

 winter weather the mounds are taken down, and the stem of the young tree, 

 which by this time will have been firmly rooted, is exposed to the air. 



On the whole this is certainly a very costly system of planting. What, 

 then, are its special advantages, if any ? They appear to me, if I was correctly 

 informed, to lie in the fact that a mounded-up young tree will yield payable 

 crops of fruit from five to six years sooner than is the case under the usual 

 methods of treatment. This fact alone amply justifies, in my opinion, the 



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heavy initial outlay, provided always that it is not accompanied by other 

 objections that did not come under my notice. It appears to me possible 

 that trees raised in this fashion may prove shorter lived than is usually the 

 case. In any case I propose testing this method of olive-planting at Rose- 

 worthy in the coming season. Even were the complete success of the system 

 definitely proved in South Australia, we should always find ourselves faced 

 with the difficulty of securing limbs of the requisite dimensions. I should 

 add here, too, that all growers appeared very emphatic as to the absolute 

 necessity of making use of wild olive branches only. It is possible, however, 



