The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-09-15
HOW TO PLANT PINES.
Directions for Handling the Fragrant
Cones.
Shelter Desirable For Them AlwayS-The
Profitable Varieties to
Plant.

On the subject of pruning and pro-
tecting pineapples. James Mott of Win
ter Haven, Florida, writing to the Bar
tow Courier-Informan says:
| prefer land that is new, so l know
there has been no crop growing on 1t
that would be liable to cause 1t TO be-
come infested with the root knot para
site. like it back some from any lake,
and if it can be sheltered from heavy
winds by some natural growth of tim
Der so much the better, and l prefer
! it level land. When l tell people | am
planting pineapples at Winter Haven,
often the answer will come, You don't
have TO shelter them there" | reply
NO, but l do shelter them, and so
would should l grow them in Mexico,
in the country of their nativity. Grow
/ ing, wild there, they are always in the
forests. along the small streams, in
open timber-they naturally like
partial shade and when that is given
| them we get better splants and larger
and better fruit.
/ like to break up the ground some
little time before planting, yet do
plant on freshly plowed ground. think
4 it better to subsoil, not deep blowing,
but subsoiling. l use scooter after
the plow, letting 1t drop down pretty
deep, fifteen to eighteen inches. Then
my shed goes up. This shed is usually
made of 2x6 fourteen feet long string
| ers, the ends meet, or better If longer
than fourteen feet, so that they lap by
on top of the posts. The posts are eight
feet long, set eighteen inches deep,
which leaves six and half feet in the
clear to walk under, and are set eight
by fourteen feet apart, the short dis
lance north and south; the cover is
made of three-quarter by three inch
sixteen and one-half foot long Stats
that are put on the stringers three in
ches apart, running north and south.
Now l prepare the beds to be planted
by again blowing the ground crosswise
from the first blowing, letting that
same bull tongue drop into the bottom
of the furrow | do not harrow the
ground. but rake it down smooth, being
careful not to tramp on the ground
where am to plant, but all the time
work from the alley that is left between
the beds
/ make a bed for seven rows of plants
eighteen inches apart, and the plants
are set thirty inches apart in the rows,
and five-foot alley between the beds,
which is needed to do the work for
lfertilizing, hoeing, gathering and
wheeling out the fruit.
l like pretty large plants-if good
strong ones; often they will fruit in
half the time that it will take small
plant to bear. l prepare my plants by
cutting a little of the butt off-say UP
to where some little specks (embryo
roots begin to show, being careful not
to cut too high up, nor farther than to
these little eye-like specks; then STRIP
off few of the lower leaves. Again I'M
der these leaves are some little specks
roots in embryo) and don't go too far
above them. and l am ready to plant.
l got two one-half by two-inch TWEEN
ty-four feet long strips, within plain
marks thirty inches apart, then board
1x10 eleven and one-half feet long.
make a plain mark square across six
inches from one end, that term line
mark; then six inches from that anoth-
! er mark for the first row Of plants, and
so on eighteen inches apart until
have the seven rows, which the last
one viii be six inches from the end o.
: the board Six inches outside of tht
first row Of plants | stretch a gardeI
line Git best be 100 feet long,. then M
strips are laid down at each side Of th'
bed inside Of the line on one side AM
the other, so it will be just outside o
the rows Of plants on the side, then m,
board that | marked is placed on thes
strips, the line mark directly on tn
line, and If care Is taken that the be-
? is started square, which the line mari
on the board when placed on the lin
will show, the rows will be straigh
both ways The planter never tramp
I on the bed, but stands on the planting
: board to do the work When one eros
row Is planted the board is moved u
to the thirty-inch point on the strips
The plants best be set pretty firmly II
the ground-whieh the proper dept