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400 pounds muriate of potash. 

 100 pounds Perucian guano. 



v" Peaches and plums require more nitrogen during early growth, 

 and more potash when in full bearing. For a new plantation- of 

 these trees the following, amounts should be given annually for each 

 acre: 



300 pounds ground bone. 

 400 pounds muriate of potash. 

 - 150 pounds nitrate of soda. 



For peach and plum trees in bearing the following formula may 

 be suggested : 



400 pounds ground bone. 

 500 pounds muriate of potash. 

 100 pounds Purivian guano. 



- Inasmuch as many owners of dwarf fruit trees will have so much 

 less than an acre for treatment, it will be best to repeat these 

 formulae, reducing them to a smaller unit. Making this reduction 

 somewhat freely to avoid long and useless decimals. We may com- 

 pute the quantity needed for each 100 square feet of land as follows: 



For Apples and Pears in Bearing: 



1 pound ground bone. 

 -.. ' 1 pound muriate of /potash. 

 % pound Peruvian guano. 



For Peaches and Plums Newly Planted: 

 % pound ground bone. 

 1 pound muriate of potash. 

 % pound nitrate of soda, 



For Peaches and Plums in Bearing : 



' y pound Peruvian guano. 

 114 pounds muriate of potash. 

 1 pound ground bone. 



For treatment of trees in winter, during frost, the trees, if 

 closely packed when received, should be placed in a cellar or some 

 place where the frost cannot reach them, and there remain un- 

 opened till a thaw takes place, and then be unpacked and plainted ; 

 with such treatment, even though frozen solid, they will receive no 

 injury. 



