How To Take Care Of Citrus Trees
The Whakatane Beautifying Society provides this information about the care of citrus trees. The various members of the citrus fruit family are much harder than many people imagine. They prefer a rather light soil which has ben well and deeply cultivated and well manured.
The trees are very ornamental both in foliage and flowers, and fruit, and make good lawn specimens, fruiting freely when a circular space round the stem is kept cultivated and manured.
They require little or no pruning, except to open up the centres of the trees, remove dead or decaying branches and maintain a reasonable shape. They will not stand drought, and in dry districts should be well watered or mulched during the summer and autumn. In late spring apply superphosphate at the rate of three lbs a tree.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 9, 18 October 1950, Page 5
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140How To Take Care Of Citrus Trees Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 9, 18 October 1950, Page 5
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