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grand results in peach culture. Muriate of Potash may 

 be applied to the peach tree after ploughing, by scat- 

 tering from two to five lbs. around the tree, using the 

 larger quantity on large trees only ; keeping it at least 

 one foot from the base of the tree, and scattering as far 

 as the branches extend. It may be employed in connec- 

 tion with acid phosphate (commonly so called) in the 

 same proportions and in the same way, and it may be 

 used with numerous other matters, examples of which 

 we will presently give in formulae. Phosphoric acid is 

 very important food for the tree and we apply it gener- 

 ally in the form of super-phosphate alone, or joined with 

 potash, ammonia, magnesia, etc. Plain super-phosphate 

 may be drilled in, after ploughing and harrowing in the 

 spring, from 200 to 500 lbs. per acre. Ammonia had 

 better be applied in a commercial fertilizer containing 

 .02 to .03 per cent, ammonia with Potash and phosphoric 

 acid, and put on at the rate of 200 to 400 lbs. per acre. 

 There is, generally, sufficient magnesia in the soil, but, if 

 needed, it can be applied as given in some of the formulcC 

 given in another place. Iron may be needed in the 

 peach, and if I had an orchard that was stubbornly 

 unthrifty I should try iron, among other things. My 

 friend. Dr. C. Elton Buck, the accomplished chemist of 

 the Walton and Whann Company, tells me that there 

 is, in his opinion, iron sufficient in the Peninsula soil for 

 peaches, and it is constantly being thrown up to the air 

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