Abstract
MR. PICKERING is playing no new part when, in the recently issued report of the Woburn Fruit Farm, he appears as the demolisher of cherished convictions concerning so fundamental and practical a matter as tree planting. It is an article of faith among fruit-growers that fruit trees must be planted in a certain special way if success is to be obtained. The soil is properly prepared, a large hole is made, wjde, but not deep, the roots are carefully spread out in all directions and arranged near the surface, with a slight upward bearing at the ends. The soil is filled in with many precautions. Small quantities of the finer soil are first worked in among the roots, hollow places caused by N°t rammed, archings in the stouter roots are filled up, and then the rest of the soil is put in, trodden carefully down, and the whole left to the compacting influence of the rain. The tree is supported by stakes until it is sufficiently firmly established.
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RUSSELL, E. The Planting of Fruit Trees 1 . Nature 79, 500 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079500a0
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