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ing substance. The soil should be well pulverized, and 

 the tree should be planted at the proper depth in the 

 simple, natural, good top soil or loam, and covered with 

 simple mild loam only. No manure should be placed 

 under it, none over it (at first,) and none nearer than 

 from four to six inches from it on the sides. 



<< The transplanted tree," says Mr. Jacob Seneff, a 

 highly successful pear-grower of this city, <' is like a 

 child, convalescent from some severe injury. It must 

 not be fed at once with stimulants ; it must have time 

 to recover itself gradually by nature's own processes, 

 before you give it rich and abundant food." There is 

 much good sense in this remark. To say nothing of the 

 probability that you may destroy the tree by the excess 

 of putrescent matter, and the powerful chemical action 

 of your composts, when holes two and a half feet deep 

 are filled with <^ all the ingredients prescribed by ex- 

 perts," it is evident that a young transplanted tree needs 

 no such material to help its growth for several months, 

 or for the first year. The best compost for a newly 

 planted tree is precisely that from which it was taken — 

 the simple, natural loam, well enriched by previous cul- 

 tivation. This is all it wants to assist it in getting 

 started in its new residence ; this is nearly all it will 

 bear without injury. 



The holes for pear trees on quince stocks, in my 

 opinion, should be dug only deep enough to set the tree 

 so that the union of the graft shall be covered an inch 

 or so with the natural soil. Put no manure of any kind 



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