The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-26


ards that have been planted 10 to rs years
that have never borne more than one or
two good crops, These trees undoubtedly
lack mineral fertility. If they have been
manfred at all it is usually with stable
manure which is rich in available nitro
gen, and thus promotive of wood and
leaf growth rather than of fruit. Young
apple orchards should not have after the
first year or two much heterogeneous ma
nure. What they do have should be APP
piled in soluble form carly in the spring,
so as TO give a vigorous early growth,
which will be checked later in the sea-
son, and thus start fruit buds for the
following years. crops. Usually this
process is reversedaq,4H the manure
is applied eaflybsins the spring 1T is
commonly unfeFmented, and dOesn0t pro-
mote growth much before -piidsHinmer,
when it does more Harm than good We
do not doubt that 1t is the pinching
which the California treet get during the
dry season that promotes their early pro-
ductiveness. We shall probably find that
the drought Witch largely prevailed
through the northern states last fall will
induce full poisoning the coming spring
This may not mean large fruit crops
the coming year, To produce fruit bios
SONS must set fruit, and there must be in
the soil the available mineral manures to
perfect it. Is it not possible that failure
of fruit to set after Iblossoming is not
partly caused by lack of the requisite
potash and phosphatea That may also
be one of the primal causes of blight
which destroys leaf and fruit, which has
of late years been increasingly prevalent
The variations of seasons nave ten
dency to make mistakes in management,
and thus bring trees into bearing. After
very wet growing season a large amount
of new groath is made, which often from
it's own weight is bent over. This retards
the sap, and causes the. formation OF
fruit buds All fruit gro wers know that
those varities of fruit come into bearing
most quickly whose habit of growth is
spreading rather than upright. Take a
pear tree whose top ospires Yin steeple
fashion and head it dowpwards, or stop It's
growth during. the shmher, Ind that
tree can within q year be. brought into
bearing if the soil has sufficient. mineral
! elements to make the fruit. Spread out
the upright limbs of the young Northern
| Spy apple and bend them downwards. II
! can thus be made to bear as early and
abundantly as the Baldwin or the Greenin
After a tree has been once loaded down
with fruit its branches never grow up
| right as before, and it then forms the
| habit of bearing. s
Working In accordance with the causes
of fruit production it is possible o rms
any kind of tree into bearing within q
reasonable time, and thus DO away with
some of the most serious discoura gements
| of the fruit grower. There is,no use ir
having orchards grow to very large size
| before they begin to make q profitable re
turn. The habit of fruit bearing needs Il
be formed early The tree VIII be a:
thrllty in after life and as long lived a,
J one left to grow TO large size before bear
| ing anything, and then being brought II
| fruit bearing by sudden and probably
| injurious shock a11 cod ~ l5y 60 ~