Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1917 — Waning Tree Life. [ARTICLE]

Waning Tree Life.

Do not forget that old trees'starveto death just as surely as young trees, though by reason of greater bulk and. a far-reachingroot system they do not so quickly show the need of food nor so quickly succumb. Stable manure; dug or plowed in 20 or more feet around the tree will do as much goodas anything. Conifers that are; trimmed up from the bottom and the> soil raked clean or sown to grass right! up to the trunk-generally undergo ai slow but sure loss of vigor. Soil should: be occasionally enriched and dug up deeply and the needles always left f«R a mulch. »’