. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1686. Orchard of standard Pears as grown in the northeastern states. tleptii, overlying a porous subsoil. Soils which are lia- ble to be wet during any considerable portion of the growing season are unfit for this purpose, unless deeply and thoroughly underdrained ; while even then they are quite liable not to
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1686. Orchard of standard Pears as grown in the northeastern states. tleptii, overlying a porous subsoil. Soils which are lia- ble to be wet during any considerable portion of the growing season are unfit for this purpose, unless deeply and thoroughly underdrained ; while even then they are quite liable not to prove fully satisfactory. A few varieties are found to be moderately successful on sandy soils, but for general planting such soils should he avoided. 5. Manures.—The liability of the Pear tree, in this climate, to the attacks of blight is thought to be in- creased by excessive growth. It is, therefore, desirable that the annual growth be completed and ripened at as early a date as practicable; and the more so, since the liability to blight apparently exists only while growth is in actual progress. Stable and other nitrogenous ma- nures should, for this reason, be applied in moderate ([uantities, in autumn, after the liability to excite re- newed growth shall be past. Potash, lime aud phos- phorus, which enter more or less largely into the com- position of both tree and fruit, and Avliich rarely ex- ist in excess in the soil, may be profitably applied in either autumn or spring. Salt may also be profitably applied to the comparatively dry soils recommended for the Pear, but with care not to apply in excess. One or even two quarts may be safely applied to each tree, be- fore the commencement of growth in the spring, if well distributed upon the surface over a space of at least G or 8 feet in diameter, and left to be carried gradually into the soil by dew and rain. It is believed to possess little, if any, manurial value; but to act rather as a con- servator of moisture, and pr
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