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Excerpt from A Complete Fruit Growers Guide Catalogue, 1899 Good soil tillage at the proper time, sufficient fertilizer of the right sort, proper preparation of the soil before planting, are essentials to the best te sults in growing trees. This properly applies to both nursery or orchard. We have a peculiar way of preparing soil before planting it to trees. Some thing original, and a little expensive, perhaps. We begin with turning under three or four good, heavy crops of clover or peas, then we proceed to apply a good dressing of rich stable manure, and finally subsoil the ground eighteen or more inches deep. Results: Strong, thrifty, smooth and straight bodies, large bunches of fibrous roots of strong growing and fruit ing power. The picture shows our men in the act of subsoiling a field con taining over 100 acres, for nursery stock, to be planted in the spring. The soil, a rich, heavy, black loam, is eminently adapted for growing trees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.