Dwarf fruit trees

by F. A. Waugh

For peach and plum trees in bearing, the following formula may be suggested:

400 pounds ground bone
500 pounds muriate of potash
100 pounds Peruvian guano

Inasmuch as many owners of dwarf fruit trees will have so much less than an acre for treatment it will be best to repeat these formulas, reducing them to a smaller unit. Making this reduction somewhat freely, in order to avoid long and useless decimals, we may compute the quantity needed annually for each one hundred square feet of land as follows:

FOR APPLES AND PEARS IN BEARING

1 pound ground bone
1 pound muriate of potash
¼ pound Peruvian guano

FOR PEACHES AND PLUMS NEWLY PLANTED

¾ pound ground bone
1 pound muriate of potash
⅜ pound nitrate of soda

FOR PEACHES AND PLUMS IN BEARING

¼ pound Peruvian guano
1¼ pound muriate of potash
1 pound ground bone

Cherries should be treated like plums; gooseberries, currants, and most other fruits, like apples.