The Fatm. (Extracts from New Zealand Farmer.) Select the Smaller Trees.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 206, 11 June 1887, Page 4

The Fatm. (Extracts from New Zealand Farmer.) Select the Smaller Trees.

Many persons, when about to set out fruit trees, choose such ad are older and larger. But this is a mistake, as the experience of every old farmor in orchard planting proves. The digging up of the stocks from the nuisery grounds is necessarily a severe interference with the various conditions of their growth, consequently the larger the tree the greater will be the effort to overcome the injuries after the transplanting, for that effort or reaction must go 0:1 through every coll and fibre of tha stock, uherea* a smaller tree -will require less effort in that direction — bolide, in the digging up it will sustain less injury, generally having nioro of it-> fine rootlets retained to begin the new growth. Generally, our people in this fa a t age are too impatient in the matter of fruit plotting. They want to have an orchard quickly. Life is too short. They cannot w ait. So their visions 0 f delicious apples, peaches, and pears prompt them to order of the nurseryman his largest trees. The?o they plant, only to find in after years that in not setting the younger and smaller trees they made a great mistake.