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work we would take occasion to make a few remarks on fruit and 

 arboriculture in our own locality. Indeed the subject demands not a 

 few but many words. As the cedars which grew on Lebanon form- 

 ed for ages the continued boast of Syria; so we trust that well se- 

 lected fruits of the peach, pear, apple, etc., will be the boast of our 

 country ; not neglecting those trees which are the pride of our 

 American forests, nor yet those also which are world renowned in 

 classic memory. Let them not be forgotten by us of this utilitarian 

 age. The cedar, the laurel, the cypress and the willow. Let them 

 adorn at least our places of sepulture. And here we would say, 

 that an earnest love ought to be cultivated by our countrymen for 

 these places, and to this end let those objects ever be found in esti- 

 mation adapted to their proper adornment; much more suitable are 

 they than quarries of marble in the shape of head and foot stones, 

 and chains and iron railings which are necessarv to confine the liv- 

 ing culprit rather than the sainted dead. Let the ornamental as 

 well a& the useful go hand in hand in this, as well as every other 

 department. A correct appropriation of certain trees to the soils 

 best adapted to them is an important matter to all our fruitgrowers 

 and arbori culturists, and it is one which has been in some places 

 lamentably disregarded, and in others entirely neglected. It is true 

 a cherry-tree will thrive for a few years on a gravelly subsoil, but it 

 is only to blight the hopes of those who expect to gather fruit; the 

 same to a certain extent is true of the peach. The pear and npple 

 will thrive very well although such soil is not the best adapted. — 

 Our best fruit of all kinds, but especially the former, will be found 

 upon the most elevated uplands in a good loam, underlain with clay. 

 How many of our beautiful Ohio and Miami hills the best soil for 

 fruits in the world, are covered with orchards ; alas how few indeed ! 

 and how few consider the low grounds inadequate to a great extent 

 to the production of remunerative crops of fine fruit ! We see the 

 population threading along these low lands, on account of their 

 accessibility, or rich soil for other products, setting their orchards 

 year after year and generation after generation as if the experiment 

 of raising these fine fruits had not been fully tested on these lands 

 over and over again, while most of the hills remain as bald, bare 

 and neglected as though they were utterly useless in this behalf. — 

 It would be no difiicult task to point to thousands of acres, the best 

 adapted to fruit culture of any in our land, upon which a fruit tree 



