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The best fertilizer for the young growing orange tree 

 Is undoubtedly well-rotted stable manure. This contains 

 all the elements of plant food, in about the right proper 

 tions, and where it can be obtained at reasonable cost 

 should be secured in preference to any other. All hard 

 wooded trees, and especially the orange, require potash and 

 phosphorous in larger proportions than soft wooded trees ; 

 and the soil best adapted to the orange tree being light and 

 leachy, the inorganic elements require to be renewed more 

 frequently. la case stable manure cannot be obtained in 

 sufficient quantities, there are now prepared artificial fertil- 

 izers especially for feeding the orange tree. Among several 

 which we have experimented with, "Stowe's Orange Tree 

 Food " seems to supply in an eminent degree the place of 

 stable manure. It is composed largely of potash and bone 

 phosphate, elements which are absolutely necessary to the 

 health and vigor of the trees. 



"Gould and Company's Fertilizer and Insect Exterm- 

 inator " is another article that is growing into favor, and 

 we think it merits all they claim for it. These fertilizers 

 are manufactured at our own doors, as it were, and are 

 likely to be genuine. 



Fine ground raw bone, ammouiated superphosphate, 

 dried blood, fish ^i.iano and many other artificial fertilizers 

 have been employed by orange growers with beneficial 

 effects ; each person wh > has been successful with any one 

 of them, recommends his favorite as the very best. The 

 facts are, that each and every one are good, and *' best " in 

 proportion to the greatest amount of plant food in a soluble 

 form which they contain Young growing trees require 

 fertilizers rich in carbon, nitrogen, phosphates and potash. 

 Older bearing trees require manures rich in phosphates 

 potash and lime. 



