ON TREES AND 



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"solids." Everything has to be dissolved. You see 

 people applying bone meal and other fertilizers, but 

 none of these are used by trees or plants until they 

 have been dissolved in water. You can make these 

 stimulants so strong that they may injure the plant. 

 One of the best ways of keeping a tree growing 

 well is to spread coarse gravel all over the ground, 

 out as far as the drip of the branches, and then give it 

 all the water it will take through July and August. 



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