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growth, and our experience shall seem to dictate. Ashes are always excellent for 

 fruit trees, and lime also in many cases. Salt, we are also inclined to think well 

 of, for most kinds, but especially the plum and quince. It must be used cautiously 

 — say one or two quarts each — ivell spread under good sized standard trees, and 

 from five to six bushels per acre. Mulching promises to be the cheapest and most 

 efficient manure we can use, and should be applied three or four inches in depth, 

 covering the ground in nurseries, or among fiuit-bushes and the like. Around 

 standard trees it should extend as far as the roots, and not less than three feet 

 each way from the stem. 



As to the probable fruit-bearing character of the Xorth-West. — It will, doubt- 

 less, be excellent for apples and common red cherries; and quite far North, 

 though more care will doubtless be required there, while the trees are young. 

 Peal's, plums, and the Duke cherries, will probably do passably well — and per- 

 haps well North — hardy kinds of the plum especially. As for peaches, heart 

 cherries, and quinces, it is doubted if they will succeed as well any where in this 

 region as at the East, though along the lake shore they do pretty well. In 

 Southern Wisconsin we deem it, nevertheless, well worth while to plant the 

 peach and quince. The sweet cherries cannot be recommended. The whole list 

 of smaller fruits flourish generally through this section, and should be extensively 

 cultivated. 



As to the probable market for fruit — to us of the present generation, and pro- 

 bably to all time, it must be, practically, boundless — at least for long-keeping 

 apples, dried and preserved fruits. Whichever way M-e look, we find new- 

 openings or markets for fruit. In addition to the increased and increasing use 

 that is being made of it generally for domestic purposes and stock feeding — in 

 addition to the pressing home demand existing among us — there are on the 

 North and West, vast tracts of unsettled country that will naturally rely upon us 

 to supply them. If we look South, there are the Southern States, the West 

 Indies, Central America, and California, all rich, easy of access, and dependant, 

 at least, for apples. If we look East, there are also high prices and good mar- 

 kets, at least in some seasons, so that we might sometimes be required to supp'y 

 even them. 



And furthermore wo believe — and believing we may as well give it utterance — 

 that according as we interpret the signs and necessities of the times, the bristly 

 gory Star of Pork-dom will, erelong, culminate; that, henceforth, flesh-eating 

 will decline and disappear before the rising unsanguined glory of the Sun of 

 AppledomI — when Ceres, Pomona, and the Genius of Temperance, shall preside 

 at our festal and domestic boards I 



We will conclude this tedious article with lists of tender and hardy sorts of 

 apples when grafted on the root. 



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