GENERAL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 24 July 1912, Page 4

GENERAL.

The up-to-date Nelson fruit-grower has entirely departed fiom the old method of planting fruit trees. Instead of preserving the roots and spreading them out carefully when the tree is put in the ground, he lops them off close to the stem, leaving a sort of bulbous root. A hole is made j in the ground with a crowbar and in., goes the tree. This method is not adopted to save time or money, but because it is said to be better than the old one. Instead of having to live with half dead roots the tree makes new ones, suited to the ground m which it is put, and therefore grows much more healthily than it would otherwise have done. There is nothing, however beneficial which does not, by excess, become injurious '• This is an excerpt from a letter to The Lancet written "by six' teen of the most eminent medicos of England. Thty were expressing their opinion of the use of alcohol in disease, and followed by saying that in prescribing aj.cob.ol the requirements of the individual must be the governing rule. Recognising this, they held that in nianj' cases it may be truly described as a life preserver owing to its powers to sustain energy Many years ago some of the most prominent French doctors agreed that spirits taken so was a great help in checking tho ravages of influenza, and to-day wo suppose there is nothing more popular on the world's market in the way of pure alcoholic stimulants than Wolfe's Schnapps, which is recommend as a medicine as well as a beverage, and as the advertisements say, "To check colds take it hot with lemon at bedtime."