February, 1911 



Planting. 



Deep planting is not advocated, the 

 Roneral practice being that the depth 

 of planting- in the nursery should be 

 followed. If holes are dug, tlicy 

 should be shallow, the bottom i)eing 

 merely loosened to allow a comfort- 

 able friable bed for the tree roots. 

 A good practice is to dig. the whole 

 strip along which the trees are to be 

 planted, merely removing sufficient 

 soil when afterwards planting. .An- 

 other satisfactory custom is to plough 

 furrows 20 feet apart, and to plant tlie 

 trees in the furrows, filling in the soil 

 over the roots and trampling well 

 down. Before planting, the roots of 

 the young tree should be well trim- 

 med, shaped to an even form, and 

 cleanly cut. As a result of their re- 

 moval from the nursery beds, the 

 roots are generally more or less dam- 

 aged; and numbers of the fibrous 

 roots, becoming dry, shrivel and die. 

 These all require a clean trimming. 

 Then it is often desirable (o remove 

 some of the roots so as to balance the 

 root system. The trimming of the 

 roots gives the young. tree a clean 

 root system, and it is enabled to es- 

 tablish itseJf with young vigorous 

 roots. 



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.After planting, the in\, should lu' 

 well cut back, so as to leave three or 

 four arms, with tiiree or four buds on 

 each. Where it is not possible *.o 

 have this number of arms or limbs it 

 is frcciuently atvisable to cut back 'o 

 one .stem, allowing the buds to break 

 out strongly and frame the tree after 

 planting. In some localities, the 

 custom of not cutting back the trees 

 the firts year is favoured. Local ex- 

 perience has not resulted in favour of 

 this practice, as it is found to be in- 

 advisable lo unduly strain the young 

 tree by leaving a heavy top to be sup- 

 ported by the weak-growing root 

 system. 



It is unwise to plant a large num- 

 her of varieties in a commercial or- 

 chard, but due consideration should 

 be given to planting varieties that 

 have a favourable influence on each 

 other for cross-fertilisation purposes. 



A number of good commercial 

 fruits have been found to be either 

 wholly or partially self-sterile, requir- 

 ing other varieties near them to en- 

 able them to set their fruit. For this 

 purpose it is necessary that the bloom 

 periods should be somewhat coin- 

 cident. 



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Root Growth. 



Root growth no doubt varies 

 according to circumstances in as 

 great a degree as top growth, 

 which, as one is the result of the 

 other, is of course perfectly na- 

 tural. An interesting illustration 

 of the extent of root development 

 was reported from the Bathurst 

 orchard. It appears that shalts 

 were sunk to ascertain the charac- 

 ter of the formation of the ground 

 on which the trees are planted At 

 a depth of from 12 feet to 4 feet 

 the granite rock was met. At ii 

 feet deep the soil was fairlv moist 

 and the roots of the apple trees^ 

 at that depth showed strong de- 

 velopment. The trees have been in 

 the ground 15 vears. Beyond giv- 

 ing the roots of young trees a lead, 

 ther« does not seem to be any 

 necessitv for subsoiling. In any 

 case subsoiling to, say, a 'depth 

 of 12 inches would be of little use 

 to a depth of 11 feet. Ih stiff 

 clav it^mav be advisable to lead 

 the roots bv subsoiling to discour- 

 age a root development too close 

 as a help to roots growing 

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