TREE PLANTING.

Patea Mail, 14 June 1881, Page 4

TREE PLANTING.

Some time ago Tim Bunker wrote in an American paper in this style: And while I am talking of trees as a shelter for old age I want to say a good word for orchards, apples and indeed fruits of all kinds. I waked up to planting apple trees when I was young, and 1 think 1 have now about as good an orchard as there is in town. With the low price of fruit this last year it has brought me in over three hundred dollars, sold on the trees to the buyers, I only regret that I had not begun to plant pear trees sooner. They are quite as hardy as apples, yield as well, and sell for more than double. A man with a dozen acres in pears of the right kinds would have a comfortable income for old age if he had nothing else. But aside from profit, plenty of fruit in the family is a great comfort and luxury, and an important means of health. We have seen very little of the doctor in forty years, and we have had fruit in some shape every day in the year. Put these two things together} long-lived people eat much fruit.