What Killf Fruit Trees

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 133, 2 May 1891, Page 4

What Kills Fruit Trees

ppop. planting; is one error; to J "JiliiiVt ji ! ree rather shallower tha:i it foriueriy'at<i<jd is really the right w.iy, ■■whilo.in.nnj : plant a tree as they would a post... . Roots ;• are of two kinds— the youngs .tender composed entirely of,, cells, the feeders of the trees, always found near the surface getting air and (moisture '; ; and roots of Bver one year,old, which serve only as supporters' bf "the * trees and aa conductors of ite',f ood. Hence the inj my thai ensues when the delicate ; rootlets are so deeply buried in eartli. Placing fresh or green 'manure inj contact 17 .\?ith - the, young roots is auother great error. The place to put 'manure Is on the surface, where tKe' elem^lits disintergrate, dissolve, amd daVry it : dowhward. ' Numerous forms of fungi' 'are generated and repr^u^dtiy the application of such manure's directy to the roots, and they linmeVuately attack the tree It is 1 v&ts: well.to enrich. thie J soil at transplan ting Jth^tr^e,^ hut the_u2anure, if "tolFfiln contact wit h\ or very near the rq^tß, ; rßhould ...be",^thoroughly decomj>6at'd. r . --„ .. , /-f v . , : .:. -- ■