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culture, our efforts will be crowned with success, for in tLis, 

 as iu the growing of every other crop, good culture is the 

 requii^ite of success. Many Avho undertake the raising of 

 fruit pratically ignore this fundamental truth, and act as 

 if they believed the age of miracles not yet passed ; and, set- 

 ling their trees much as they would a post, conceive their 

 duty in the matter accomplished, trusting, doubtless, that, 

 by some special interposition of Divine Providence, the 

 laws of vegetable growth and production will, iu this case, 

 b3 reversed for theijL- benefit. "We are told by good 

 authority that " Faith without works is dead," and the 

 fruit grower will find that this applies to his calling as well 

 as to everything else. 



It being settled bv the farmer or land OAvner that he will 

 set an orchard, and being convinced of the necessity of 

 thorough cultivation, the natural inquiry with him is, 

 "How shall I proceed in order to produce the best 

 results ? " 



A practical reply to this question is the object of this 

 paper. 



Aspect. — As regards aspect, not much can be said 

 wliicli is of general application, the conditions of soils 

 in different localities vaiying — the geological formation 

 being such tliat in some localities the lands of one exposure 

 are much more fertile than those of another, but other 

 things being equal, Avould choose a Eouthcrn or eastern 

 exposure rather than a northern or western. 



Soils are of endless varictv, from the sand bank to tlio 

 Bwamp, and many of these varieties arc well fitted for 

 orchard growth. In n:ost Iccalilies among the hills of 



