Show ovea OVER FEEDING PLANTS A correspondent writes I 1 have found by experience that young fruit trees and sowe some some flo flowering shrubs were often injured by over feeding for many any years I 1 lost almy alamy c cherry lerry trees I 1 planted them around around my yards and gave them the richest soil I 1 could gather gathen they grew finely som some a bore good crops in a few years sears ears they split from the branches to the roots andin a few years more they died I 1 found in journals that this splitting was supposed to be induce induced dby by the heat of the tile sun for they tiley generally occurred on the southwest side of the trunk where the sun shone the hottest I 1 soon observed however hoever that cherry trees never split when they grew on oil a poor soil so when I 1 discovered them to check I 1 at once all the soil for fire or six feet around them and supplied its place with loam loamy or poor gravelly m matter atter since then not one has split and I 1 presume they never will when cherry trees are large and old t they hey may be safely for then their energies are spent in bearing hearing fruit and they grow but slowly pear trees are more easily surfeited than cherty cherry trees but it affects them differently when over the leaves coming out of the new now wood at the ends of the twigs instead of olf being one inch or more apart camhout came out ont in iu a cluster mcluster and the limb ceased growing at i once A few years yean ago 1 I bioc procured ared a fine young pear tree and wishing it to grow and bear as soon as possible I 1 planted it in the range of the lowest point of my barnyard barn arn yard so as to receive the drain ings of the manure the new leaves all over it came out in thick bundles or whorls I 1 immediately removed all the earth from over tha the roots and filie fille dAhe space with yellow loam loarn ali ail and id turned the drain from it in III two weeks the new wood shot out and put forth its leaves nearly two inches apart aid alid ald made a fine growth I 1 once an apple orchard of seventy trees and every twig threw out the same whorls wood ceased growing the tips of all dried and I 1 lost one years growth so I 1 find trees as his well as gs me meu men a and other animals can be overfed and surfeited J JAMES ca FOUNTAIN jefferson valley N Y january 25 1857 fA merican american agriculturist march |