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amounts of guano and bone-black, and muriate 

 of potash twenty pounds. Equally satisfactory 

 results are obtained from both applications, in 

 vigor and fruitfulness and apparent recovery 

 from the "yellows." (See Transactions of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1882, part 

 I., pages 120 and 130.) The simpler form of 

 1,000 pounds of bone meal and 300 pounds of 

 high grade muriate of potash, per acre, will 

 probably be found equally efficacious and more 

 readily obtained. 



Trees one year from the bud are most suitable 

 for transplanting, and this should be done only 

 in the spring, in the Northern States. The wise 

 course is to cut the trees back to a single stem 

 not over three feet in height. As soon as the 

 buds have made a start of two or three inches, 

 rub off all but the one selected as likely to be 

 the straightest, for a new trunk. The nearer 

 this is to the ground the better, provided it is 

 above the point where it was budded. The old 

 stem remains for a few weeks, to which the 

 young shoot is tied for support, until sufficiently 

 strong to sustain itself. Early in July this old 

 trunk is cut away close down to the new shoot, 

 leaving no stub to prevent a speedy healing over 

 of the cut. No further pruning will be required 

 this season. The new shoot will attain an aver- 



