The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria . to be self-sterile, if planted in isolated blocks. Hence, it is advisable toplant other varieties adjacent to insure cross-pollination, which is likelyto result in more regular CROWN AND TOP OF YOUNG TREESSUITABLE FOR TRANSPLANTING. is thought, by many, that good cultivation is unnecessary for the fact, it is claimed, by some growers, that the trees do better where culti-vation is not adopted. Quite a number of the plantations in thiscountry are either not cultivated at all, or at odd times with intervals
The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria . to be self-sterile, if planted in isolated blocks. Hence, it is advisable toplant other varieties adjacent to insure cross-pollination, which is likelyto result in more regular CROWN AND TOP OF YOUNG TREESSUITABLE FOR TRANSPLANTING. is thought, by many, that good cultivation is unnecessary for the fact, it is claimed, by some growers, that the trees do better where culti-vation is not adopted. Quite a number of the plantations in thiscountry are either not cultivated at all, or at odd times with intervals ofyears between. This system of cultivation at periods of long intervals isperhaps more detrimental than none at all, owing to the strong tendency ofthe small feeding roots of olive trees to rise close to the surface of the the soil is undisturbed for several years it becomes a netw^ork of fibrousroots, these will be destroyed if the ploughing takes place again. Con--stant cultivation encourages deeper rooting. Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [lo March. 1912. In those districts where the rainfall is light, and the conservation of allavailable moisture is one of the most important contributories to successfulculture, there c
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