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106, or as single cordons, previously referred to. 

 In this way much excellent fruit may be grown, and 

 space utilised which otherwise could not afford a 

 pennyworth of produce. 



IMPORTANT ITEMS. 



Manuring Fruit Trees. As a rule too much 

 manure is given to trees when young, and not suffi- 

 cient when old or bearing freely. If stout young 

 wood extends much over a foot in length the soil is 

 rich enough : if less than that assistance is needed. 

 The simple mixture recommended for Gooseberries 

 on page 54, is good for all kinds of fruit, to be 

 applied as there recommended, as far as the roots 

 extend. So is a mixture of one part bonedust, two 

 parts Kainit, and twenty parts of charcoal dust, as 

 recommended in the Herefordshire Pomona, 

 to be applied at the rate of a quarter of a pound 

 to the square yard. Genuine guano is excellent ; 

 so is nitrate of potash (saltpetre), at the rate of 

 2 oz. per square yard; and good stable manure 

 spread on the ground in the autumn, and there 

 left to decay, encourages growth in weakly trees. 

 Persons who desire a more scientifically complete 



