Farm Notes
ARTIFICIAL FEEDING OP r ; W‘‘ v ■ • TREES. Tsr recent experiments the artificial feeding of ferees through incisions in their trunks has given remarkable ‘ results in restoring health and vigour, o and in / saving valuable specimens whose roots had been so weakened 'by disease as to draw insufficient ’inourishment from the soil. The death of many, apple-trees on the estate of M. Simon, at Allaire, Prance, was traced to an affection .of the rootlets. To treat diseased treOs a tubeis inserted through the bark of the stem to the layer having .ihe ; , sap-vessels, and liquid was v supplied'from - a reservoir placed from three to five feet higher than the hole in the bark.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43338, 16 June 1908, Page 1
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114Farm Notes Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43338, 16 June 1908, Page 1
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