Il8 FRUIT FARMING 



for 2/6 each chart (if one only) or the set of five for 

 6/- nett, with the handbook. They have been warmly 

 welcomed by the County Council Lecturers and the 

 Gardening Press. Purchasers have to pay carriage, 

 the charts being of large size, mounted on card-board 

 and eyeletted for hanging up, they are too large for 

 post. They can be supplied from The Royal Nurseries, 

 Maidstone. 



In selecting trees, preference should be given to 

 those having a clean bark and free growth ; indications 

 of healthy active roots ; really one of the most important 

 points. Much stress is sometimes laid on getting trees 

 from a soil which is relatively poorer than the one 

 about to be planted, but we have never seen Maidstone 

 trees fail even in the poorest of soils, or as far north 

 as Orkney or in the more genial counties of Devon 

 or Cornwall. Our results are not produced so much 

 by manure as by frequent hoeing, and cultivation of 

 the soil, inducing roots to develop to a remarkable 

 degree ; and other nurserymen seem to work on very 

 similar lines.* 



If Standards or Half-standards of Pears, Apples, or 

 Plums are required, they should be of an uniform 

 height in the stem, and two to four year old trees should 

 be preferred, as their roots are more at home, and young 

 trees start more freely than those which are older and 

 have to recover themselves before they can make pro- 

 gress. Many two years' feathered (unformed pyramids) 

 are now planted ; these can either be allowed to form 

 Pyramids or Half-standards, as required, and are 



* " I think it most important to buy good trees. Deal with a reliable firm and have 

 the best. It may look a little expensive at first cost, but when one is spending freely on 

 the land and fruit planting entails spending freely if properly done it is of the 

 greatest importance to plant good trees, that one may rely upon to be true to name. " 

 Year's Work. 



