TREE PLANTING.
Those who are thinking" of planting trees (for any purpose at all. should lose no time now in preparing iur them,, If yo.u wish, to plant this year and cannot get the .ground readyyet owing 'tq wet or que thing aim make arrangements w,itn your nurseryman to have the trees balled and neid over Jor you until you are. quite .ready* Balled trees can be planted as late in the season as yuu like, providing that' the . soil is properly worked: In - any case 4 would be* safe enough 'to plant them m October if you cannot get the ground ready before. We know oi one farmer who insisted on having his trees potted up into five-inch potts and <2id nqt plajht them out until December and the whole lot grew wedli. Naturally, sne trees lia,d to be selected for.. this purpose,' tout as they began to grow in the pots no time was iosi and the plantation is now giving good shelter. Those who want goou and quick shelter should work their ground as they would for any other crop that is worth .growing. ".Planting in grass is all yery well when the plantation has to doe'put in where ground is so rough or steep that it is impossible to plough it or otherwise work it, but in level land where it is possible to get the plough at is best worked up welh The ground between the trees need not be wasted for the first yea? or two as it can be used for potatoes or anything else that is wanted, and the cropping of the ground means that it will have to be worked which is a very good thing. The growth of trees in worked ground is quite double that of trees, planted in grass and when plantations are wanted for shelter they are generally wanted i n a, (hurryNew Zealand is being so denuded of trees that it is imperative that something should be done to give the land a fair covering and this Will only be done by every farm having a portion of its surface devoted to growing trees. Those who have in -the past gone in for extensive tree planting are so decided about the advantages that they have gained that it is a wonder more do not take the work up. The time is coming when firewood and fencing material will be so scarce that it- will be Impossible to get it. Provision ssould be made to meet these» times and the sooner it is done the better.—Standard.
I AMATEUR GARDENERS. I , An Auckland Doctor whose practice is largely obstetrical, writes: "I am a keen gardener and find nothing to equal Q-tol for keeping my hands in Bood order.'*
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Shannon News, 29 August 1924, Page 3
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460TREE PLANTING. Shannon News, 29 August 1924, Page 3
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