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them in the shape of heavy crops of fruit, and older one 3 which 
had for years been bearing enormous crops till the soil had 
become so thoroughly impoverished as to be totally unable to 
afford such trees the food necessary for the production of fruit of 
ripened wood is obtained, good crops of fruit will assuredly follow 
ir the weather is favourable at blossoming time; and whenevei" 
good crops are obtained liberal dressings of manure should follow 
in order to return to the soil, to some extent, the constituents 
Fig. Oi.-HOYA IMPERIALS. 
good quality, or even to prevent the trees passing to premature 
decay. Manux and over-rich soil have, in innumerable instances, 
been the caus of delaying the productiveness of many kinds of 
fruit trees; bat when short-jointed, thinly disposed, and well 
which have been drawn fiom it. This will keep the roots near 
the surface, make them active and healthy, and being within reach 
of the ; xfluence of air and sunshine they are more beneficially 
acted n by the warmth of spring and summer, the fruits swell 
