THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
““Deglet Nour” Palms in Fruit, Lake Harry. 
January .1,. 1910 
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SSS A TE ETS A rN, 
the soil round vines clean’ and 
weeded, 
well 
Prune and cultivate to main- 
tain a steady, even temperature. A 
warm, moist etmosphere and warmth aud 
moisture and sweetness in the soil are 
ideal conditions for the vine. 
Planting Fruit-Trees. 
At the Woburn Experimental Fruit 
Farm (England), the director, Mr. S. A. 
Pickering, has carried out some experi- 
ments in the planting out of fruit-trees 
the results of which are rather startling, 
The purpose of the experiments was to 
-determine whether it is right, in planting 
out fruit-trees; to dig a broad shallow 
hole and evenly spread the roots out all 
round the tree, or to make a small hole, 
double up the roots, and stick the tree in; 
_ zhen throw in the soil and ram it as hard 
as if one were putting in agate- post. 
The experiments were carried cut, not 
only at Woburn, where the Duke of 
Bedford carries out much valnable and 
exact experiment work, but at Harpenden, 
Bedford and other various places in 
Cambridgeshire, .and in Devonshire. 
Fifty-nine per cent. of the set showed in 
favor of ramming, 27 per cent. showed 
no difference (7.¢, all the elaborate detail 
of the ordinary way of planting was 
simply a waste of time), and only 14 per 
cent. were against ramming. 
Mr. BE. J. Russell, writing in ‘Nature,’ 
says:—It makes no difference by what 
criterion the trees are judged; planting 
in this new way gives better results than 
planting in the orthodox fashion’ ;— 
which,. of course, remains to be seen. 
But in the transplantation of trees, the 
orchardist in Great Britain can success- 
fully do things that would mean utter 
failure in Australia. Generally 
speaking, the trees used for planting out 
are of several years growth, and are great 
linky trees. The moisture of soil and 
air, however seems to help them te 
recover and establish themselves. In 
beautifying the grounds of the Franco, 
British Exhibition, all sorts of decidous 
ornamental trees, up to 3 or 4 inches 
diameter and 20 feet in height, were set 
out in small holes sunk in stiff clay, and 
it was amazing to observe how they 
flourished, 
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