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nesia (hieresite), 25 pounds; muriate of potash, 100 to 

 150 pounds ; dissolved bone-black, 450 pounds : omitting a 

 space of a foot all about the tree. Instead of the muri- 

 ate, probably 10 bushels of unleached wood ashes, with a 

 peck of waste salt, might be used. Dr. Nichols recom- 

 mends the following as a good stock fertilizer, a good com- 

 bination for all crops, five hundred pounds to be applied 

 to the acre. While he considers superphosphates as good 

 for all crops, he considers them especially good for roots 

 and cereals. 



Lbe. 

 Superphosphate of lime . . . . . .40 



Sulphate of ammonia 25 



Muriate of potash . ....... 25 



Sulphate of lime (plaster) 7 



Sulphate of magnesia 3 



FOR ASPARAGUS. J. B. Moore, the well-known market 

 gardener, has an acre and a half of asparagus on soil nat- 

 urally very poor, mere pitch-pine land, which has, since 

 broken up from nature, received no other dressing than 

 phosphate of lime and potash. It is remarkably thrifty. 



FOR PASTURE-LAND. Raw ground bone will restore 

 to the soil the phosphate of lime that has been carried away 

 in the milk and in the bones of the young calf. Use finely 

 ground bone (not treated with acid) at the rate of four hun- 

 dred to five hundred pounds per acre, and the effects will 

 be seen for years. It is better to double the productive- 

 ness of a pasture than to double the area of it. 



FOR FRUIT-TREES IN PASTURE-LAND. To Professor 

 Maynard, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, I be- 

 lieve the public will, as years go on, realize that they owe 

 a great debt. The professor was the first, as far as I am 

 aware, to agitate, and carry out in practice on some- 

 thing of a large scale, the idea of using for orcharding, 



