THE MAGAZINE 



O F 



HORTICULTUR 



JUNE, 1847. 



ORIGINAL COiMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Guano^ and its Application to Fruit Trees. 

 By the Editor. 



The use of Guano for Horticultural purposes is steadily 

 gaining friends, and, although much has already appeared in 

 our pages upon the subject, and numerous pamphlets pub- 

 lished, there is still, with many, a great prejudice against its 

 use in any form in gardens. Some allege that it possesses no 

 virtue ; others, that it is altogether too powerful ; while by far 

 the greater part of cultivators have not made any experiments 

 with it, but quietly await the results, after others have failed 

 or succeeded in their endeavors to introduce so economical 

 and valuable a fertilizer. 



Since the first introduction of Guano, wc have annually 

 made use of considerable quantities, and tried it upon a vari- 

 ety of trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, vegetables, &c., and in 

 no case but with the most marked success, unless we except 

 some few pot plants, when it was used, through negligence, too 

 strong. We have an account of an experiment we tried in 

 laying down an old pasture to grass, the results of which 

 were so much beyond our expectations that we intend soon 

 to publish it. For the present, we have only room to oflfer a 

 few hints on its application to Fruit Trees, this being just the 

 season for that purpose. 



Mr. Teschemacher, whose articles on the use of guano have 

 occasionally appeared in our pages, formerly recommended its 

 application in a liquid state, but more recently, in his treatise 

 on the subject, he has advised its direct application to the 

 soil, as the insoluble portion contains the chief substance of 



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