FRUIT TREES
GIVE THEM GOOD CARE. In spite of the utmost care in gathering and storing, fruit may still “keep” badly. Where this happens it can usually be traced to error in manuring. It is most common where the ground round the trees is cultivated for other crops and heavy dressings of manure have been applied. This is indicated by very large fruits which are slow to ripen and by deep colour and excessive vigour of foliage.
<XThe best remedy for trees over ' ten yeats of age is to grow grass on the land around the trees. Where this is not possible, the excess of nitrogen which is the cause of the trouble, must be corrected by withholding nitrogenous manures for a while and balancing that present in the ground by applications of sulphate of potash during the. growing season.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1941, Page 9
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140FRUIT TREES Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1941, Page 9
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