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Excerpt from The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser, Vol. 15: Devoted to Horticulture, Arboriculture, Botany Rural Affairs; 1873
And above all look after the nutrition of the trees. Some people say that land which will raise good corn will grow good fruit trees, which is all right; but they should add that like corn they require regular and continuous manuring. There are some parts of the country where corn can be successively taken for half a life time without manure on these soils we need not ma nure fruit trees but in all others we must to have good results. This is particularly essential where trees are grown in grass as both the trees and the grass require food. Where trees are grown in grass, we prefer top dressing in J une or J uly, but if it has not been done then, do it now. Where trees are kept under clean surface culture, the manure is of course ploughed or harrowed in with the aw in the spring of the year. To know whether trees require manure or not ask the leaves. If in July they are of a dark rich green, nothing need be done to them, but if they have a yellow cast, hunger is what is the matter. This of course is supposing they are not infested by borers, in which case they will be yellowish in the richest soil.
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