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WINTER PEARS. 



2 Milver's Favorite, 2 Brassane's Burgamott, 



3 Winter Orange, 

 1 Davies' Pegg, 



1 Black Tartarian, 



2 White Tartarian, 



3 Oxen Heart, 

 3 Rea Heart, 

 2 Early May, 



Napoleon Bigarrow, 

 2 Yellow Spanish, 

 1 Blue Heart, 



The plan of grafting at the root is preferred to budding, 

 though both are practised. Set out large trees in the fall, 

 and small ones in the spring. Plant from one to two inches 

 below the surface — throw the top dirt in first ; water well ; 

 when the hole is half filled up, so as to settle the dirt around 

 the roots, pack well ; then fill up the whole to the top, but 

 do not wet it. Put straw, or other trash, from two to three 

 feet around the tree, six inches deep. All young orchards 

 should be tended in potatoes or other small grain, but not 

 corn. The whole crop of apples in this county will average, 

 one year with another, 500,000 bushels, and the average price 

 in the orchard 10 cents, making the crop worth $50,000. 

 For further particulars under this head, the reader is referred 

 to an article in the Indiana Farmer of Nov. 1st. 



Soil, Timber, &c. — The soil for the greater portion of this 

 county, consists of clay. The south-eastern section is under- 

 layed with secondary limestone. The northern part presents 

 mostly a level surface ; while in the western portion, the soil 

 rests upon beds of pebble limestone, with admixtures of silicious 



