Cost of one tree, $4. Now, a reasonable crop of Green Gages, from a full-grown 

 troo, would be about two l)ushcls. These, at the Montreal market, I have sold at 

 $s per bushel ; they would perhaps bring more at New York or Philadelphia. 

 AVili, there is $10 net jn-olit, after paving and marketing, jticking and packing 1 

 "Who says it won't i)ay to i)avc ? 



Another subject I may speak of, which will perhaps suit some one, in regard to 

 trees received from a nursery in a shrivelled and dry condition, whicli I have seen 

 tried on President AVheeler's grounds, Hurlington, Vt., with success. It is sim- 

 ]ily to jdacc a barrel (without bottom) around the tree, and till up with tar or saw- 

 dust ; this, with a good mulching, will seldom fail to bring vitality to light, if it 

 exists at all. 



SPECIAL MANURES. 



BY L. WYMAN, JR., WEST CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



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Ix answer to a respected correspondent who writes from " York," and asks 

 " which do you consider the best stimulant, for the pear-tree, of all the ' special' 

 or ' manufactured manures' you have used ?" and "please state the result of your 

 experiment, etc.," I would simply reply that, having made quite a number of ex- 

 periments with " special" manures, particularly with reference to their fertilizing 

 cpialities when applied to the pear-tree, I most unhesitatingly give the preference 

 to Gould's Muriate of Lime, over all others which I have ever used.* As a 

 stimulant, I consider it the best I ever applied, imparting more phosphate to the 

 soil, in relation to the cost of the same, than any of the special manures, guano 

 not excepted. Some four years since, I planted from the nursery about twenty 

 young pear-trees, measuring from one and one-half inches to three and one-half 

 inches in diameter. These trees were placed in a gravelly loam, good soil, and 

 were well manured, with finely pulverized house manure, and a compost of street 

 sweepings, &c. The soil and location considered good for the growth of the pear- 

 tree. From some cause, these trees, although well planted and carefully attended, 

 made scarcely any growth of wood for three years, not growing scions over three, 

 and many of them not over two, inches in length. I tried an application of Gould's 

 Muriate of Lime in the following manner : — 



Removed the soil about the tree to near the roots, leaving them thinly covered 

 with earth over them. Next applied, by measure, one quart of Gould's Muriate 

 to the roots of each tree, covering a space of from two to three feet around ; re- 

 placed the soil again, and mulched thinly. These trees received no water, or other 

 treatment, for a year, and nearly all of them made a vigorous growth ; in some 

 of them, the last year (1856), scions are, by actual measurement, over two feet 

 and one-half in length, and the scions healthy and strong. These trees are now 

 in good, healthy condition, and will doubtless make a rapid growth the present 

 season. The above trees can be seen by the curious, or those interested in the 

 culture of the pear-tree. I have made other experiments with this fertilizer, and, 

 in all cases, the same has given me the most perfect satisfaction. I can, from 

 actual, careful experiment, recommend it as just the manure for the growth of 



* I have used nearly all kinds of stimulants (usually denominated "special manures"), 

 not omitting tlie numerous " phosphates, " the " poudrettes," the "Lodi fertilizers," the 

 "superphosphates," "guano, pure and unadulterated." I have given them all a fair trial, 

 and, iu my catalogue of "special favorites," I do not omit several astonishing "eggs" re- 

 cently hatched, or pass by the theory of Liebig, or the universal " world renovator" of Mapes 

 found in them all, in a greater or less degree, a fertilizing promotive of the 

 plants to which they were olfered. I suppose others have done the same. 



