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do soiuethiiig; but whether they will bear enough of fruit in ten years to make 

 their culture profibible is a question upon which we have not sufficient data to 

 warrant a reply. Trees have borne here four successive crops, and winter-killed 

 the winter following the last one. If I had a spot of pretty high ground (not 

 rich) sloping to the east, and pevfectly^roteeted on the west from cold winds, I 

 should plant an orchard with the expectation of having fruit once in two or 

 three years. The peach-worm should be looked for in the trunks, at the surface 

 of the ground, several times every summer, and after they are dug out and des- 

 troyed, some ashes should be placed around the tree. 



The grape does well with me. I have had the third successive crop of Isa- 

 bellas the last season from a vine seven years old, standing in deep, rich sandy 

 loam ; others, who have planted in stiff clay, have not been equally success- 

 ful. The grape seems not to relish a compact soil. The vines should have 

 some protection by laying down and covering with straw or litter the first four 

 or five winters, after which they will do without. My Isabellas have been veiy 

 fine except the crop of last season, which did not perfect its flavor for want of 

 sufficient sunshine. In ordinary seasons they ripen from the 1st to the 15th of 

 September. The Catawba is two weeks later in ripening; it has not yet fruited 

 with me. I suppose it will not perfect its fruit except in favorable seasons in 

 this latitude. I have fruited another variety, inferior to the above, the two past 

 seasons; it ripens two weeks earlier than the Isabella — is as hardy as our wild 

 gi-ape, and a rampant grower. 



Strawberries do very well with me, producing good crops every year, with mo- 

 derate culture. The large Early Scarlet is the best variety tried here. Hovey's 

 Seedling proves rather unproductive. 



All fruits, except Heart cherries and the peach, should have a good deep soil, 

 and clean culture until the middle of August. To let trees struggle up among 

 grass and weeds is to throw away the money bestowed upon their planting. 

 Orchards planted on high grounds produce a good crop when the frost kills all 

 the fruit in low grounds. The most elevated sites should be chosen on that 

 account, according to my experience. 



Too much can hardly be said against the slovenly manner in which trees are 

 often placed in the ground, and cared for afterward. Many seem to suppose that 

 to get a line lot of large trees from the Nursery which have made a tall, slender 

 growth, to get their roots in the ground by preparing a hole just large enough to 

 receive them by crowding — and then to keep them trimmed up to such a height 

 as will admit the free passage of a tall horse under the branches without brush- 

 ing his ears — is all that is necessary to secure, in time, a good bearing orchard. 

 The trees must not ititeifere with the growth of other crops, a full crop of wheat 

 or oat-s is expected to crrow among them : to ofTect which the ground must be 



