Arizona republican., 1891-01-29
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 PLANTING FRUIT TREES.
All Trees Should Be Planted in Deeply
 Flowed Soil.

Come, let us plant the apple tree:
 Clesve the tough, green sward with the spade.
 Wide let its hollow bed be made;
 There gently lay th roots, and there sift the dark mold with kindly care,
 And press it OCT them tenderly;
 So plant we the apple tree.
 So sang the poet Bryant For this coast it is very good poetry, but very poor horticulture. Here, with no sum- mer rains to brace them up, all tree planting should be done on deeply plowed land, the more deeply plowed the better, and in no case in retentive- that is, clayey or adobe, soils should the hole in which the tree is to be planted be dug deeper than the land has been plowed. If they are, and there comes a rain after planting, the holes fill with water, which, in such impervious soils, remains until it evaporates, to the great damage of the roots.
 "Cleaving through the tough, green sward" is sometimes practiced on this coast in city door yards, as it often is East, and such planters wonder why their tree pets do not grow and thrive with all their care and watering. The wonder is why trees so planted ever grow at all, the grass taking up all the irrigating water applied and the larger share of available plant food. But kindly nature furnishes in most cases the requisite amount of moisture from below, and our wondrOus deep and rich soils have vast store of plant food. Therefore, even trees so planted, after barely clinging on to the feather edge of life with scarcely any growth for two or three years, eventually become deep rooted and make sturdy growth.
 The planter will pay 15 cents for fruit tree, and plant it out on deeply plowed ground and give it most careful culture throughout the season. It lives. He will pay g for a fine magnolia, or $l or S2 each for fine orange trees, cut square hole in his well-kept lawn, through the tough, green sward," where their roots will also be robbed by trees growing near, jam their roots into it and calmly expect them to live and grow. Instead they die, or, at best, few survive, and after two or three years of lean, consumptive aspect, an eyesore to the premises, they get hold on mother earth and grow.
 When planting trees, if you wish them to live and thrive, the holes in which you plant them should equal in size the field planted. By this is meant that the whole surface of the field should be deeply plOwed. If necessary, to get good depth, trench-plow it--that is, by running one blow after another in the same furrow; then holes need not be dug any deeper than will take in the tree little deeper than it stood in the nursery, and no wider than will take in the roots in their natural extension. Of course, if the soil is left in a cloddy state after the blow, it should be narrowed down fine, and on intract- able adobe soils, when very cloddy, the harrow and clod crusher should alter nate upon them until they are fine and well packed. The roots, when out of the ground, should never be allowed to be- come dry or be exposed to the sun or drying winds. When planted, the fine soil should be very firmly packed over and among the roots. Thus we plant the apple tree" and other fruit trees.
 Trees can be planted on grassy lawns and on unplowable, rocky and steep hill sides, and even on level land with moist ure-bearing rock near the surface. On such places, as the poet says, the holes should be dug "wide five to eight feet wide, but not deep, then the tree planted quite shallow ill the middle and finished by constantly, every few days during spring and summer, fning up the sur face of the place dug for the tree, ex- tending its area and adding fine, loose soil from the surface of the interspaces between the rows to its whole surface. In this way our steep, moist, rich north hillsides could be made into the very best orchards. The tree planted on the lawn should have wide hole, be planted deeper, thoroughly soaked once with water, about June 1st, then the whole space covered heavily with mulch.