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well to manure it heavily till it begins to bear. Begin with a moderate 

 quantity, applying nearer the outer extremity of the lateral roots and 

 increase the quantity every year and enlarge the area to which it is 

 applied. When garden crops are planted, scatter the manure broad- 

 cast. Aim to make the ground rich, rich as a city garden. It 

 will pay for the manure and cultivation if the ground be planted and 

 well cultivated in crops, and especially if planted in vegetables where 

 a market can be readily reached. There are several advantages de- 

 rived trom generous manuring when the trees are young; not only is the 

 development of the tree hastened, but the tree is less liable to be 

 attacked by some of the insects, and when attacked is better enabled to 

 resist their ravages : and when' in vigorous health, but is not making new 

 wood during Winter, it is less liable to be damaged by the influence of 

 frost. To prevent this last named evil, the tree should never be stimu- 

 lated in the Fall or latter part of the Summer. It is much better to 

 manure in the Spring. Another advantage to be noted is, when trees 

 are pushed before coming into bearing, the heavy manuring does no 

 damage to the fruit. After trees have begun to bear it is better to 

 manure heavily once in four or live years. Manuring bearing trees, and 

 especially when the manuring is heavily done, has a tendency to make 

 the oranges .split and drop off the first year after manuring; and even 

 when they do not split, the fruit for the first year is not so sweet and i.s 

 more liable to rot soon after picking. To insure a good general yield 

 and saleable fruit each year the manuring should be applied alter- 

 nately to different parts of the grove, laying off the grove into four or 

 five equal parts and manuring the first part the first year, the second, 

 the. second year, tfcc. 



The kind of fertilizer to be used depends largely upon the charac- 

 ter of the soil. If the land planted was originally heavily set in hard 

 wood and the ashes of the wood, cut in clearing, has been scattered on 

 the ground, it is more than likely that the soil for a few years will have 

 a sufficiency of lime, soda and potash. In that case nitrogenous ma- 

 nures will be needed. But if all the hard wood has been taken off 

 the land and no ashes left, such a soil will likely have become poor in cal- 

 careous manures, (as the readiness with which the pine springs up in 

 oui 1 worn hummock lands shows) and should be treated as the 



