CHAPTER XI. 
MANURING AND MULCHING. 
TERE is probably no part of the care of fruit 
trees less understood, than that of furnishing the 
proper kind of food, and in the right condition to 
be appropriated. 
Young pear trees are often killed by over kind- 
ness, in placing large quantities of unfermented 
manures in the holes before planting, and around 
the bodies of the trees afterwards. It should be 
distinctly understood, that both of these practices 
are likely to prove injurious to the welfare and 
healthfulness of the trees. It is now admitted that 
unfermented manure of any kind should not be 
placed near the roots of a young tree. 
The following analysis, by Dr. Emmons, of the 
wood of the pear tree, shows that potash, lime, and 
phosphate of lime, are the three leading constituents: 
SAPWOOD. BARK, 
Potash, ........ eoeee 22.25 6.20 
Soda, ......seeeeeeee 1.84 
