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THE ORCHARD. 



As it is now time to make your selection of fruit trees that you pro- 

 pose to plant, the query will naturally arise in many minds, what varie- 

 ties, among the many now under cultivation, should be selected ? What 

 kinds have been fully tested, etc. ? This depends much upon tuste, yet 

 more upon the character of soil, the extent of ground you would plant, 

 and something as to your object, whether for the market, or merely for 

 family supply. 



The soil best adapted to all our hardy varieties, is a clay loam, such 

 as is furnished on the sides and upon the summits of the hills around 

 Cincinnati. This soil is strongly impregnated with lime, being underlaid 

 with fossilliferous limestone, of the old Silurean. The peach, the pear, 

 apple, plum, and cherry, all thrive well on this soil. 



It is useless to set the finer varieties of cherry upon our bottom lands, 

 or sandy or gravelly subsoil. The difficulty seems to arise from the 

 early maturation of the buds, and a consequent early dropping of the 

 leaves ; which is pretty sure to be succeeded by a second flow of sap. 

 and expansion of fruit-buds, and thereby filling of the sap-vessels with a 

 return flow, which upon freezing are burst asunder, and the following 

 spring the tree perishes. 



Peaches do not thrive so well upon a sandy or gravelly subsoil, being 

 more severely afiected by drought. The plum succeeds better; the pear 

 not so Well. 



When the soil is adapted to fruit, no crop will pay better. iAIr. 

 Laughery, before named, sold last year four thousand dollars worth of 

 peaches oflF of eleven acres ; and Mr. Davis, of Clermont, realized from 

 three crops of peaches, of successive years, over forty thousand dollars. 

 The h(st varieties of Fruits for a Fruitage of limited extent. 



APPLES. 



^ar/y — Prince's Early Harvest, Large Swectbough, Early Strawberry. 



and Summer Ptose. 

 Summer and Autumn — ^ummtv Pearmain, Drap d' Or, Fall Pippin, 



Cooper, Maiden Blush, Porter, Wine. 

 Earli/ Vilntr — American Golden Eusset, White and Yellow Belleflower, 



Newtown Spitzenberg. 

 Late Winter — QYQ(m and Yellow Newtown Pippin, Eawle's Jannet, 



Wine-Sap. 



There are many other excellent and well tested varieties, not included 



m the above (and some, perhaps, that would be preferred by manv), 



some of which I will here append, that should be added to every krge Jol- 



lection: Ehode Island Greening, Eoxbury Eusset, White Pippin, Jonathan, 



