Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — Soil for Nursery Stock. [ARTICLE]

Soil for Nursery Stock.

A dry, loamy soli not exoesalvely

rich is best for growing young trees! for sale. There must be potash in the soil, but until fruit trees get into bearing, they need less of other plant-food than do most farm crops. In moderately heavy soils, potash is seldom lacking, and on these good drainage and cultivation are more important than manure. The bulk of growth of leaves and wood is carbon, and is; drawn from the air through the leaves. If nitrogenous manures are largely used they make a soft, sappy growth, that is easily killed by severe cold. And besides this young trees thus grown are apt to be too much checked when transplanted into soil less stimulated by manures. ,