PEACH AND THE PEAR. 27I 



Chlorine 1.70 



Sulphuric Acid. 1.80 



Phosphate of Lime 6.50 



Phosphate of Peroxide of Iron ...... 



Carbonic Acid 37-39 



Linne . . 30.36 



Magnesia 9.40 



Silex 0.42 



Organic Matter 4. 18 



Analysis of the Ash of the Pear Fruit. 



Potash 54.70 



Soda 8.32 



Lime 7.97 



Magnesia 5.22 



Sulphuric Acid 5.66 



Silicic Acid 1.49 



Phosphoric Acid 14-31 



Phosphate of Iron i .96 



All these analyses will be seen to be of importance 

 when we come to treat of the remedies for the diseases of 

 the trees, and are useful to refer to when reading of fer- 

 tilizing the trees, and might have been given in that 

 Chapter. 



The first of the diseases of the Pear to be treated 

 of is blight, the scourge of scourges with which the pear 

 is afflicted. 



