Department of Agriculture United Provinces. The Guava

The position of the centre plant is exactly half the distance between the parallel lines AB AB along the lines DD X X X represent the centre plants. [...] The inexperienced grower makes the gravest error when he restricts the use of the pruning knife during the first three or four years of the life of the tree. [...] The absence of imagination and the want of the power to observe the future requirements of the tree is a lamentable fact to be seen in all orchards left entirely to the care of the ignorant mali. [...] It is not only the manure but the pruritic of the roots in the process which is the factor of influence. [...] The diameter of the trench will extend yearly corresponding to the vr(iwth of the branches.