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low's Seedling, White Seek-no-further, R. I. Greening, Vandervere, 

 Tolman Sweet, Rambo, Montrose Pippin, Green Everlasting, Limber- 

 twig, Red Romanite, Winter Pearmain, Swaar, Virginia Blush, Pound 

 Sweet or Lyman's Pumpkin, Sweet of Books, Large Yellow Siberian 

 Crab, Siberian Crab, Fall Sweet, Nameless Winter Sweet obtained for 

 Talman Sweet, Lane Sweet, Royal Pearmain, Redling, Spice Sweet, 

 Detroit Red, Hodge's Black, Golden Sweet, Barnhill, Yellow Bellflower, 

 Cheeseboro' Russet, Pownal Spilzenburg, Michael Henry Pippin, Tift 

 Sweet, Spurious Drap D'Or, Camburnathan Pippin, Peach Apple, Pen- 

 nock, Hawthornden, Sack and Sugar, Domine. 



" My apple trees are generally root grafts, planted on poor, heavy 

 land, sloping north and south, and originally covered with scattering burr 

 and yellow (or jack) oak. The bearing trees were mostly of three 

 seasons growth, some four or five, when planted. Thirty in the spring 

 of 1844, and seventy the spring following, several of which havng failed 

 in transplanting, or in consequence of accidents, injuries in winter, <kc., 

 have been replaced at different times. 



" Since planting, the trees have been well cultivated by frequently stir- 

 ring the ground as among corn, washing the bodies in the spring with 

 soft soap and strong suds, waxing over bruises or large wounds as in 

 trimming, and for several years, while the trees were young, a mound 

 of earth about a foot high was heaped around the base late in the fall, 

 and removed in the spring. 



" Most of the trees have been manured as often as once in two or three 

 years. At pruning very little has been done since the tops were formed. 

 In regard to that most important consideration, the bearing of an or- 

 chard; it is unquestionably true, that for some reason many sorts at the 

 West are generally not as productive at a given age and size as at the 

 East, or as other kinds. , 



" In the opinion of some, no kinds bear as early and as well here as 

 in the Eastern States ; but in my opinion this is entirely a mistake, 

 although there are doubtless particular cases that would seem to warrant 

 such, an idea. Thus, there are some kinds that are naturally late in 

 coming into bearing ; some doubtless made so, by being worked from 

 nursery trees many removes from bearing trees ; and others in conse- 

 quence of the soil on which they are planted — low, rich, prairie soils 

 being inclined (with trees as with other crops) to produce an excess of 

 leaves and woody matter. 



