The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-01

water and bring IL to a boil, to kill all
the seeds that may be In the earth, then
place II in a box and plant the seeds one
inch deep in rows three inches apart, wa
ter the soil with weak liquid manure and
keep 1t moist-not eoppy-ln a sunshiny
place, and If the seeds be fresh they will
begin to come up inside of two months.
When 1t has four leaves pick out and set
them in rows wide enough apart TO draw
out the weeds, and they will be ready to
set in grove form next year. If we'll car
ed for they will be two feet high when
year old. AS rats and chickens will eat
the seeds, the tops should be protected
from them.
The best distance apart In the grove Is
a question difficult to answer. / have
tree secured from China in the spring of
1895. 1t was less than foot long. 1t now
has a spread of twenty feet A gentle
man who visited me last year and had
made extensive journeys in China, in the
interest of has house, said my tree had
not yet begun to grow. He had seen them
in Eastern China over 100 feet tall land, "
continued he, looking over his glasses to
note my surprise, "if you live as long as
you ought to you will either move your
house forty feet away or the tree" So
will not say much just now about the dis
lance apart in the grove, but will leave it
to the planter. recently read an article
advising the planting at fifteen feet in
rows, and the rows thirty feet apart
Florida soil and climate appear to be
perfectly adapted to the camphor and /
know of no reason why it will not attain
100 feet and more in hight with a CORE
spending spread If this be so, then the
distance between the trees must be de-
cided by the grower If he intends to cut
his trees when four or five years old,
fifteen feet apart may be wide enough but,
as l said before, this matter l leave to
others to solve.
Cultivation-After the planter has decid-
ed the distance between the trees there Is
but little to do but to plant them. All
the cultivation they need is to keep down
the weeds until the tree is firmly estab-
lished, and then 1t will take care of itself.
1t Is a forager, for / had found roots sixty
feet away from the trees. AS orange
trees in the vicinity do not appear to suf-
fer from 1t, / am led to believe that the
camphor rootA feed on elements not taken
up by other trees. If this, be true, the
planting OF camphor I'm the check" OF
orange trees would afford the greatest
projections to oranges, and be an addi-
tional profit to the planter. AS the cam
phor tree drops but few leaves In a year
the soil is not made richer that way. so
it may be said that the camphor tree like
the chameleon, lives on air.
The camphQr tree does not grow like
many other trees, but makes four distinct
erowths in year. 1t sends out three to
five shoots from the end of each twig. The
tree to-day is almost entirely enveloped
by the new growth. 1t VIII not take long
for tree of this age (ten years. to double
its weight. In the Chinese tree the new
shoots are a light yellow, turning to a
dark green, with leaves slightly tinged
with pink. When the limbs are two
years old there comes a coarse bark, a
shaggy bark. Every portion of the tree
leaves, limbs roots and seeds, contain
camDhor.