Soil Culture
Soil Culture
CONTAININGA COMPREHENSIVE VIEWOFAGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, POMOLOGY,DOMESTIC ANIMALS, RURAL ECONOMY,AND AGRICULTURAL LITERATURE.
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0.400 0.200 Soluble silicia 0.80 0.300 0.400 Organic matter 4.60 2.450 2.100 _____ _____ _____ 100.65 104.535 111.450
This table will indicate the application of plenty of wood-ashes and charcoal; lime in hair, bones, horn-shavings, old plaster, common lime, and a little common salt. Lime and ashes, or dissolved potash, are indispensable on an old orchard; they will improve the fruit one half, both in quantity and quality.
Propagation.--This is done mainly by seeds, budding and grafting. The best method is by common cleft-grafting on all stocks large enough, and by whip or tongue grafting on all others. (See under article, Grafting.)
Grafting into the sycamore is recommended by some. The scions are said to grow profusely, and to bear early and abundantly; but they are apt to be killed by cold winters. We do not recommend it. Almost everything does best budded or grafted into vigorous stocks of its own nature. Root-grafting, as it is termed,--that is, cuttin
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