596 Agricultural Experiment Station Ithaca, N. Y. 



compost. — Patrick Barry ^ The Fruit Ga/rden^ 1st Edition, 

 1860. 



If the ground, which has been appropriated to the orchard, be 

 also occupied as farming land, as is usually done for a few years 

 after planting, while the trees are small, it should be exclusively 

 devoted to hoed crops ; by which is meant those that require con- 

 stant cultivation and stirring of the soil. — John A. Warder, 

 Apples, 1867. 



The en lire soil where an orchard is growing should be either 

 mulched, or cultivated, or hoed over so frequently during the grow- 

 ing season, that all vegetation will be completely subdued. — 8. E. 

 Todd, The Apple Culturist, 1871. 



