. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. t-feedingarea. Its chief function is moisture conservation, though it naturally alsoadds some plant-food as it decays. Any such mulch should extend outat least as far as the tips of the branches, and a clear space of at least sixto twelve inches should be maintained immediately around the trees. In many places all the mulch needed for the first eight or ten years canbe grown between the trees by the use of alfalfa or other similar it begins to fail, manure or other outside resources should be drawnupon. Fer
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. t-feedingarea. Its chief function is moisture conservation, though it naturally alsoadds some plant-food as it decays. Any such mulch should extend outat least as far as the tips of the branches, and a clear space of at least sixto twelve inches should be maintained immediately around the trees. In many places all the mulch needed for the first eight or ten years canbe grown between the trees by the use of alfalfa or other similar it begins to fail, manure or other outside resources should be drawnupon. Fertilization.—The necessity for fertilization is largely a local general, young trees respond to it much less than those in bearing. Ineither case one of the safest and best applications that can be made isstable manure. On mature trees it can be applied at the rate of 6 or 8tons annually per acre, while on young trees it may be reduced to as littleas 50 or 100 pounds per tree. 1 Courtesy of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Farm Bulletin 675. 110 SUCCESSFUL FARMING. When the manure is not available, similar benefits may often l)esecun(| with an appMcntion of alwuit oOO pouiids jht acre of a conuiiercialf(Ttih/.(r tarryinjj; aliout 5 or 0 i)er cent of nitrogen, 8 i)er cent of phosphoricacid (P2O5), and 3 or 4 per cent of potash (K2O). This is enough forliearinp: trees and it should be sui)plenHnted by a niuldi or tiUaRe to conservethe moisture. For younger trees, the ap])Hcatioii sliould be rcchiced api)rox- iinately in proportion totlie reduction in areacovered. The area of appHca-tion should be al)out thesame as that describedabove for mulches, andthe best time for the fer-tilizer is probably some-what after the fruit hasset. The manure maywell be applied any time(lurinp; late winter orearly sjirinp;. In anyorchard it is always bestto leave a few typicaltrees unfertilized untilthe actual value of thefertilization is deter-mined. Protecting theTrees.—The chief ene-mies
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