Iron for Fruit Trees.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2919, 8 June 1888, Page 2

Iron for Fruit Trees.

An exchange furnishes an account of the successful experiment of one of its correspondents, who buried old iron about the roots of his trees, which resulted in great improvement in their growth and in a greatly increased crop of fruit. We have no doubt of the correctness of tUo statement, It

j reminds us of an experiment with similar results, made many years ago, . when the theory was extensively advocated that electricity aided vegetal growtli, «nd the grape vine plan® at the foot of the recently erected lightning rod made twice the growth of tho vines remote from it; and the rows of beans planted over the buried wire with upward points at the ends grew more vigorously than the beans elsewhere, it was found that the increased growth of the vine was entirely the result of the deep bed of mellow earth made in setting the foot of the rod deep into the soil, and the beans enjoyed the benefit of a similar treatment by the mellow trench for the wire. The pieces of old iron, refuse stovepipes, worn horseshoes, cast-off iron kettles, isic., could not be buried under the trees without digging the soil deeply and thoroughly, to the great enefit of the roots. Otherwise the ron could be of no benefit.