PEARS ON POOR LAND

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 September 1914, Page 4

PEARS ON POOR LAND

A cobrespowdent writing to one of our Auckland contemporaries, thinks he knows something about the above subject. Aud we personally have experianced some, having planted a couple of Bon Chretians some six years ago upon the poorest land in the Bay of Island, with a foot of subsoil and cement underneath; four years afterwards reaping a ton of

pears

" Now that a Commission is con. sidering the utilising of poor lands (write the correspondent), I "would like to give my experience, especially in regard to pears. Usually pears are looked upon as needing the best of soil. My experience seems to show that it does not mitter what the surface soil is so long as the subsoil is available Peais are deeprooting trees The best Bon Chretian pears " 1 had tins season were some grown on a p ior ti-tree spur. Some years ago I planted a Vicar pear on a piece of land, just stiff yellow clay. The tree • : has grown well and borne splendidly^ v Also on the higher lands and spur^t * the pears se em to be able to free. V, themselves from fungus pests. 'Four years ago I planted a pear tree, very badly attacked w,th mildew, oi> somepoor gum land on the hillside. The subsoil was a fire clay interspersed <v>th red clay. Now, without any spraying or manuring, the tree is well grown, clean, and healthy. From mv