The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . of the fruit that we must lookfor a general improvement in our orchard planta-tiona. Root pruning, as carried out in gardens, is notpracticable on a large scale, but it is quite certainthat the roots of fruit trees will come up and be keptup by seasonable mulchings, and I venture to askgrowers if they do not think the digging of planta-tions with such a large fork is injurious to the roots,and must tend to weaken the trees and cause theformation of coarse anchor-roots. From my own observation I feel s
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . of the fruit that we must lookfor a general improvement in our orchard planta-tiona. Root pruning, as carried out in gardens, is notpracticable on a large scale, but it is quite certainthat the roots of fruit trees will come up and be keptup by seasonable mulchings, and I venture to askgrowers if they do not think the digging of planta-tions with such a large fork is injurious to the roots,and must tend to weaken the trees and cause theformation of coarse anchor-roots. From my own observation I feel sure that planta-tions of dwarf trees alone or dwarfs with standardsat 30 feet apart will be the orchards of the have not included Plums in this paper, as fromthe nature of their roots they do equally well on freestocks as far as the production of fruit on a largescale is concerned. We have dwarfing and surface-rooting stocks for Plums, and also for Cherries, butas these are of no use for market culture I have nottouched upon them. Before embarking largely in this modern culture a. Flo. 50.—WILn PEAU STOCK. trial orchard can be started with, say ten trees eachof twenty sorts. The beneficial effects of heavymanuring are frequently seen in our , and Kaspberries in the garden, and Ithink much more of this must be done, as well asthe utilisation of that porter-like liquid which is sooften wasted in the farmyards ; and such a wet bedcan hardly be good for the cattle. An orchard ofApples and Pears would take the same the style I recommend it would require seventy-five standard trees on free stocks at 24 feet apart,and this would allow for three trees on the Paradiseor surface rooting stocks between each standard, andrequire 1135 dwarfs to the acre. This would be alarge outlay at the first, but it must be borne inmind that the return would be very quick, comparedwith standard trees only, and the crop would alwaysbe greater than even an old
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