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You did well, but i)erliaps you might have done better. If it wus possible to 

 save those trees, the best phui would have been to submerge them in water, 

 root and branch, until the shrivel was all out of the bark. A number of years 

 ago WG saved a consiginnent of peacli trees that looked as if the life was all 

 dried out of them by plunging them in an old cistern and allowing them to 

 remain there for nearly a week. Then they were planted out and mulclied, 

 as you did, and the bodies were sliaded for a time by a broad board pointed 

 and driven in the ground on the south side, close to the tree. This, however, 

 is not very profitable business, when it is possible to get trees at living rates at 

 a nursery near by. 



LAYING OUT AX ORCHARD. 



Where I wanted the first row I stretched a line, and then with a measuring 

 rod as long as I wanted the trees apart, measured and set them by the line at 

 precisely the proper distance. Next, at one end of the orchard ground, and 

 by the aid of a square, I stretched the line perpendicularly to the row already 

 set, and planted a row in that direction. At the other end of the grounds I 

 did likewise. Then I commenced at the first row set, counted off three or 

 four rows, and planted another row. I continued to draw the line and set 

 rows in this last direction till all were done. It will be seen that I always set 

 by the line one way, and that after the first two long rows were planted, the 

 trees in them answered as stakes to sight the other way. Thus I planted an 

 orchard of 15 rows, with 25 trees in a row, and they are in rows in every direc- 

 tion. — Cor. Farmers^ World. 



PRUNING AT TRANSPLANTATION. 



This is a mooted question, but long experience shows that whatever theory 

 may teach, it is safe to shorten back the branches at the time of planting ; 

 this, by reducing the number of leaf -buds, and consequently the number of 

 leaves, reduces their evaporating power while the tree is forming new roots and 

 getting used to its new home. A good rule, as far as we can make a rule, is 

 to cut back the young shoots to two or three buds at the bases and where 

 shoots are too close, cut out some of them altogether. 



P. Barry. 



Rochester, N. Y. 



TRANSPLANTING FRUri TREES. 



Occasionally we hear it said in various sections of the west that such and 

 such resfions are not suitable for 2:rowin2: fruit. An examination of the soil 

 docs not disclose any reason for such statements, and otherwise the cause is 

 not apparent. The fact is people are ever looking away from themselves for 

 the cause of their failures, whenever they meet with them. 



A friend on the prairie in one of the more northern counties of Illinois, 



