288 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Next the kuife is used, if horers are to be f.)an(l, and if much in- 

 jured, the tree is cut down, as there are always others near enough to 

 do, if sound. All such as will not be needed are cut out, and such a 

 slaughter of borers I never committed. I leave the trees 3 feet, 6, 8, 

 10 and 15 feet, as it liappens, as the least of them naay bear a half 

 bushel of apples the next season, when they will get another thinning, 

 and so on, as they crowd. 



Now as there was no plowing done for years on this ground, the 

 roots of the apple-trees are all near the surface, often but an inch un- 

 der ground, and in proportion to the nearness of the roots to the top 

 of the ground are the borers less frequent ; this I have alluded to be- 

 fore. Then there is quite a difference in varieties that the borers 

 attack. 



Winesap and Jonathan are most injured, Ben Davis and Geniting^ 

 nearly as bad, while Yellow Belleflower and Red Romanite are seldom 

 attacked. At the same time the trees that were left standing got such 

 pruning as I thought proper. Where pretty large limbs were sawed 

 off the wounds will be cemented with grafting wax. 



This will not be a model orchard of course, but if I do not get 

 some nice apples and plenty of them out of it, there will be one man 

 greatly disappointed, as the trees look healthy and are full of fruit 

 buds. There are at least fifcy varieties in it, and henceforth the ground 

 will be cultivated — very shallow, however, on account of the roots be- 

 ing so near the surface — the borers kept out, etc. To start with 

 there are at least two hundred trees, and when thinned out to ordi- 

 nary distances for apple-trees there may be near 100. 



There are trees in it that might bear five bushels of fruit next sea- 

 son. This is making the best out of a bad job. Rabbits will never 

 spoil another nursery for me, unless they do it to the little one now 

 here, for next spring I intend rooting all out, and devote all my time 

 to grapes and strawberries, of the latter of vrhich I think I have the 

 largest collection in the State. 



The Growing of Nut Trees. 



By Judge Samuel Miller, Blufton, Mo. 



As this subject has been assigned me, I will try to give it the best 

 of my knowledge and experience. 



In the first place, I will advise those who clear land to let stand 

 here and there a walnut, hickory or pecan tree, if such there be on 

 their grounds. The indiscriminate slaughter of all trees on the land 



