Show TO RESTORE PEAR ORCHARDS application of some kind of fertilizer necessary to renew vitality manure Is best after a pear orchard has borne two or three good crops of fruit the trees should have an application of some sort of fertilizer to restore vitality good manure especially from the sheep pens Is the cheapest and Is better tor the soil than commercial bertl lazers many growers overlook the matter of fertilizing their bear ing trees until they actually starve to death for the want of necessary food to preserve life and vigor to enable them to bear market able fruit that a tree Is la easily determined by the size of the leaves and the fruit in this respect the dwarf pear Is much more exacting than the standard the dwarf requires high fertilizers must be applied closer to the base and roots as the quince roots do not spread out like those of the standard pear of course the standard will respond to good fertilization as the root system is widespread and deep how ever the trees do not feel the necessity of plant food as the dwarfs do the fear of pear blight has caused a few growers to abandon fertilization and hence their orchards have been in half starved condition there is not nearly the danger from tion that there Is from plowing and digging around the trees or from which forces wood growth and it is these tender shoots that catch the germs of disease every time |