PLANTING TUBES.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 230, 23 June 1877, Page 3

PLANTING TUBES.

The planting season being now at hand a few remarks ‘may not be out of place, and again we have to strongly advise our friends against planting large old stuff. If we take the camellia, we may ask,-who has eVer had good results from transplanting old plants? There may be exceptions, of course, to the rule, but the exceptions are few and far between ; the mile is that such camellias, When replanted, have a backward tendency, mostly ending in death. Again, take for example any kind of

fruit trees, —large plants of those give,

it is true, a present effect, and, what is gg of groat consequence in the colony, a few fruit the first season; but at what a cost 1 These trees mostly get stunted, and keep so till canker and other diseases end their existence. Compare these with yearling trees, no matter of what kind they may be, and mark the difference. These, although not bearing fruit the first season, will make vigorous growth, and will overtake by the end of the first season the others, and show free healthy growth, prognosticating a long life and a continual fruitfulness. In the way of pear trees, it has been asserted that the larger they are, planted the better presumably, We suppose, that they will come into bearing quicker. Unfortunately, this dictum requires confirmation ; practical observations confirm the fact that healthy young trees, properly attended to, will produce fruit as soon as tlie others. The nnfruitfuluess of pear trees is . proverbial; but we would suggest in such cases that the trees bo headed down, grafted, and then the cause of blame would be removed. To resume the subject, much of the disappointment caused by the top-heavi-ness of pines, and their subsequent slow growth, may be traced to the planting of large stock, the present effect being the chief affair. If wc take the Norfolk Island pine as another example, we may again ask who ever saw large plants of this kind ever do any permanent good ? We would back a small healthy plant of these, of from one to two feet in height, to overtake in about three years the largest plants that could be planted; and thus we could go on with every ..other-description.,-of--vegetation in this country. —Sydney Mail -

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