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mended, such as stable manure, dissolved hone, fish guano, 

 dried blood, etc.. composte 1 with rnuck. But such stimu- 

 lating articles are no longer necessary, except in so far as 

 to keep up the steady growth of the tree and furnish food 

 for wood growth. It will be noticed that after a liberal 

 application of stable manure, or. cow-penning the soil, the 

 trees put on an extraordinary growth, and if fruiting at 

 the same time, the fruit will be large, coarse, rough, taste- 

 less and watery, and will show very fjw of the character- 

 istics which it presented under different treatment of 

 the trees. 



The best fertilizer for a bearing grove is fine ground 

 bone, with the addition of ashes or muriate of potash, or a 

 light dressing of common salt. The soil should be fre- 

 quently stirred with the cultivator throughout the season. 

 Muck, well decomposed, is always in order, and 'every 

 three or four years a good dressing of oyster-shell lime, say 

 half a bushel to a tree, will be very beneficial. From eight 

 to ten pounds of raw ground bone, scattered broadcast 

 around each tree and well harrowed in. will furnish phos- 

 phorus sufficient to last four or five years. It is slowly 

 decomposed by coming in contact with carbonic acid gas, 

 which is generated in the soil by the decomposition of veg- 

 etable substances, and in this way furnishes an abundance 

 of phosphorus for the wants of the trees, Potash requires 

 to be applied more frequently, as a superabundance of that 

 material, dissolved by the rains, and what is not appropri- 

 ated by the roots, washes down out of r< ach of the feeding 

 roots ; hence it should be applied oftener, and in smaller- 

 quantities, say about two pounds to each large tree, annu- 

 ally. The required amount of these non-organic elements 



